Madam Speaker, also on this point of order, I would like to respond to the information presented by my colleague.

I will start with the argument the member made at the end, regarding Conservative MPs factually laying out the case of intimidation, and very bad behaviour by NDP MPs in the House, which included several members of the NDP caucus aggressively gesticulating to a seated Conservative member. The member for New Westminster—Burnaby made an assertion that this was misinformation. I would draw the Speaker's attention to a video on the Twitter feed of one of my colleagues, which clearly shows this did happen. As of right now, the video has been viewed over 600,000 times on various platforms. I present this formally as evidence to refute the assertion of my colleague that somehow stating the behaviour of NDP MPs is misinformation; there is video evidence of what the NDP MPs did.

The second thing the member tried to do was state that, in response to a question of privilege where somebody makes an assertion, we should be censored. I reject that.

Again, with regard to this particular question of privilege, I would reiterate that the video evidence that has been widely disseminated is not of Conservative MPs behaving badly; it is clearly of the NDP. There is a lot of pressure in this place right now. There are a lot of people saying things and I understand it. I understand the NDP and the Liberal government are facing a lot of heat from the Canadian people. The Conservative caucus was not even going to release this video. We took video evidence of it because it was so preposterous, but we thought, “We are not going to raise the temperature in the House.”

What has happened and what I would like the Speaker to consider is that the NDP was literally caught on camera. Hundreds of thousands of Canadians have seen the NDP. There were at least four MPs, three for sure, who were waving hands in my colleague's face. I must commend him for his neutrality and poise in the situation. Madam Speaker, if you look at that video evidence, you will notice my colleague was incredibly poised. He was incredibly in control of himself.

I would just flip the narrative back to where it needs to be. A person from the NDP has gotten caught, with his whip. The member talked about our whip, but it was his whip, so I will use his argument against him. He said it is incumbent upon the whip to maintain decorum and order in the House. Well, it was his whip who was actually caught on video waving a finger like this and repeating these phrases ad nauseam over my colleague.

Michelle Rempel

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