Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have been listening since the beginning to the use of terms like palace coup, which in themselves imply violence, bypassing and overthrowing the legitimate elected officials by force, by other means. Now we are being accused of wilfully and deliberately destroying lives.
I do not mind a free exercise of parliamentary debate, but it should not impute motive and it should not imply that the Members of this House or the Members on a committee wilfully and with malice and whatever other kind of adjective I could use to indicate the degree that we have done something to be hurtful, to wilfully attack and destroy people. I think to me is an affront to myself as a legislator, to my colleagues, to this House, that it would be implied that we would do that.
We were tasked with a job. I do not mind the give-and-take of debate, but I think there has to be some civility and there has to be some basic common terminology that does not take us down to that level. It detracts from the House and it detracts from the debate and it only makes us all look bad. Thank you.