Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it’s unfortunate that we do, from time to time, rise on such issues in this House. It seems to be the nature of the beast, in that sense. As the particular area of privilege has been raised by Mr. Krutko, he mentioned that there were a number of us walking out, including myself, and there was the exchange of words.
For the record, as I was walking out of the Assembly itself, the House, Mr. Krutko made some comments on his way out and gestured in a way that may itself not been received as appropriate for what had happened. Mr. McLeod had just tried to advance a piece of legislation on one of his departments that had nothing to do with the debate that happened in this House. Mr. Krutko made mention that, as he left this Assembly, that I don’t believe you even tried to ask for unanimous consent, and chuckled as he left the back of the Chamber. Mr. McLeod was already out and made reference and made some comments back. I didn’t hear a response back and wasn’t aware of what occurred at that point.
As well, we try to govern ourselves in this Assembly and I think that we all have to look at how we have discussion both in this House and outside the House, that some words may be meant to be on the light-hearted side, but because of the moment that it’s taken or received, could be taken less or so in the sense of light-hearted and taken more seriously.
I, again, want to just put that for the record that there was an exchange and, as well, to Minister McLeod for coming back and apologizing as he had stated that there was no intention of a threat, but there was heated discussion and words shared, which he has apologized for. But I would say that we must all look at how we share our words. You want to talk about how we represent ourselves in this place. We must be fair on both sides of how we carry on the debate both inside and outside this floor. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.