light shine upon us all. mr speaker, i m frankly astonished by what the right honourable just set about separating the process of reviewing the standards process from an individual case. that was the choice that the side opposite, the members opposite made that choice yesterday to link the two. there is no separating them retrospectively. the right honourable gentleman has made much of the fact his government doesn t want to do retrospective rule change, so i m friendly astonished by him. and a lot was said about the standards procedure not being in line with other workplaces. well, mr speaker, mps are holders of public office, we are not employees, we are subject to professional self regulation, not employment law. if they want, they cannot pick and choose, if they want to be treated as employees of this house rather than officeholders, then alongside all the other employees they should be wearing masks. around the estate and in this chamber. because unfortunately, unlike when it come
right honourable gentleman just said about separating the process of reviewing the standards process from individual case. that was a choice that the side opposite, the members opposite made that choice yesterday to link the two. there is no separating them retrospectively. the right honourable gentleman has made much of the fact that his government does not want to do retrospective real change so i am quite frankly astonished by him. a lot was said about the standard procedure not being in line with other workplaces. well, mps are a public office. we are not employees. we are subject to professional self regulation, not employment law. but if they want, they cannot they want to be viewed as employees rather than officeholders then alongside all the other mps they should be wearing masks. around the estate and in this chamber. because unfortunately, unlike when it comes to breaking rules about paid advocacy, a convivial and fraternal spirit does not protect everyone else. the governmen
i m going to let the investigation play out before i take a side. as we ve seen in a number of incidents, not all of them, big ones the media has run with ferguson, baltimore, all of the calls from the media and politicians in washington have said, you need to do this, you need to do this and the facts come out and what happen side opposite of the story. i give him a lot of respect for taking a moment, a breather and saying we re going to listen to the facts before we make big decisions. juan: jesse, the question that emerges is pete buttigieg comes off as a political novice, mayor of a small city, not been through it, this is a test for him. i don t know if he aced it last night, but the test goes on and it will be a drag going forward. jesse: i think he has momentum, kamala harris and joe biden thing overshadowed it. he s likeable. he has a crisp military dialect.
and not jumping to conclusions about what happend and saying i m going to let the investigation play out before i take a side. as we ve seen in a number of incidents, not all of them, big ones the media has run with ferguson, baltimore, all of the calls from the media and politicians in washington have said, you need to do this, you need to do this and the facts come out and what happen side opposite of the story. i give him a lot of respect for taking a moment, a breather and saying we re going to listen to the facts before we make big decisions. juan: jesse, the question that emerges is pete buttigieg comes off as a political novice, mayor of a small city, not been through it, this is a test for him. i don t know if he aced it last night, but the test goes on and it will be a drag going forward. jesse: i think he has momentum, kamala harris and joe biden thing overshadowed it.