Mr. Speaker, what undermines the confidence in the Speaker is when members of the House continually get up and try to disparage the Speaker.
I come from a riding that has the longest-serving Speaker of the House of Commons. I am fully aware of the member's interventions, in terms of what he would do in our community, how he might go outside our community a little, into another neighbouring riding, to participate in an event. I am fully aware of it.
What I find extremely troubling is how the Bloc and the Conservatives seem to be on a hell-bent objective of getting rid of this particular Speaker of the House of Commons. I do not know why. They sent the matter to PROC, which dealt with the matter and referred it back to the House. We have not even had an opportunity to concur in the report yet.
The opposition House leader, the member for Regina—Qu'Appelle teamed up with the Bloc Québécois and just does not seem to even want to respect the fact that we went through a process. Instead, he is saying there is new information, that the Speaker went to a volunteer appreciation event at a provincial political association to say hi to a couple of people. All I am saying, in pointing out what I have, is that the same individual who brought forward the motion did even worse; he went to the neighbouring riding of the federal association and paid 100 bucks to go there—