Mr. Richard Harris (Cariboo—Prince George, CPC): Mr. Speaker, it has been a painful few moments listening to the member for Mississauga South, but I only have a couple of points to make.

First, by the member for Mississauga South's own statement that he just made, before polling the committee to see whether the minister would be allowed to speak, he personally said to the minister that it was not possible for her to speak before the committee. That was his decision. He indicated in his presentation that it was the decision of the committee, but it was his decision before he even asked the committee if they would allow her to speak. He made that decision. That is my first point.

The second point is this.
    
Mr. Speaker, the member for Mississauga South has said that it is your decision to rule on the inappropriateness of the actions of members. I agree with that, it is, but I would also like to suggest that as chair of the so-called ethics committee, it is the responsibility of the member for Mississauga South to allow or disallow statements that have been made by members of that committee, in particular, to use his words, any statements that may be deemed inappropriate, disrespectful, abusive, offensive, provocative, threatening, or in other words, unworthy of members to say.
   
Mr. Speaker, I would insist and request that if you are going to make a ruling on what the member is claiming, you go back through every single piece of Hansard from the committee he chairs and take careful note of every single statement that, as the chair, he allowed members of that committee to make to witnesses who appeared before him.
   
If you do that, I know that you will find that, by comparison to what he is claiming, the member for Selkirk—Interlake, I would suggest that would be considered milquetoast compared to what that member allowed members of the opposition to make toward witnesses who appeared before his committee, even going back just a few days ago, when he did not question the member for Winnipeg Centre when the member accused the witness of “lying his ass off”. The member for Mississauga South, who is the chair, did not even attempt to reproach that member. He thought that was okay.
   
Mr. Speaker, if you are to rule on what the member for Mississauga South has just presented and asked you to rule on, you must go back through every single word and statement in Hansard and see what he, as chairman, has allowed, and upon comparing that to what he is saying today, then you must make your decision.
Mr. Richard Harris (Cariboo—Prince George, CPC): Mr. Speaker, the Liberal leader has said that he will whip his caucus to vote to keep the Liberal long gun registry. Canadians and especially constituents in the Yukon know that there are only two options. Either one votes to keep the Liberal boondoggle or they vote to scrap it.
   
Yesterday at committee, the environment minister from the Yukon said:
I also heard the Liberal leader in Ottawa say that his members will have to vote to save the gun registry. If this is the case, then not only the first nations will lose their voice, but also the majority of Yukon citizens will.
   
Yukoners deserve to have a member of Parliament who listens to their concerns. We call on the member for Yukon to stand with his constituents and vote to scrap the useless boondoggle Liberal gun registry.