Point of Order

THE SPEAKER « » : Order, please. The time allotted for Oral Questions Put by Members to Ministers has expired.

CLAUDIA CHENDER « » : Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. Earlier in Question Period, the Minister of Justice suggested that I was using numbers in a misleading way. My question contained the statistic of over 400 cases in September 2019 that were beyond the threshold for unreasonable delay set out by the Supreme Court of Canada in the Jordan decision.

That number came from a document obtained by our caucus from the Department of Justice in response to a freedom of information request. That document has previously been tabled in this Chamber. In my question, I noted that, while there may be many reasons for this delay, at least some cases may be thrown out. This is accurate.

My understanding is that to cast aspersions on a member in this way is unparliamentary, and I ask that the minister retract his statement.

THE SPEAKER « » : Thank you very much for raising the point of order; however, I am determining it as a disagreement of facts.