Mr. Speaker, I am rising on a point of order coming out of question period.
I am afraid that an extremely dangerous precedent is being set with respect to how you, Mr. Speaker, are allowing questions to continue when they are clearly not about the administration of business. Today, we had a number of Conservatives bringing up issues and talking about the NDP for the entire question. Finally, at the end of the question, they said, for instance, “Will the Prime Minister let the NDP leader do something?” However, this was clearly not in line with government business.
I go back to my question from a week and a half ago. I started by talking clearly about government measures. My question started, “Mr. Speaker, last week our government announced measures”, and it went on. At the end of my question, I specifically asked the Prime Minister why the leader of the official opposition should allow his MPs to vote in favour of that legislation. Somehow, Mr. Speaker, you deemed my question out of order, but when we see what is going on today, you routinely allow those questions to stand.
Finally, I would like to add the following. I think that—