Following a heated question period exchange Thursday, Speaker Geoff Regan kicked Conservative MP Blake Richards out of the Commons for refusing to come to order.

“I know that there is a lot of heat here. Order. The honourable member for Banff-Airdrie will come to order or he can go outside or be helped outside. Which would he prefer?” said Regan, addressing Richards.

Regan then asked the Sergeant-At-Arms to remove Richards.

Opposition MPs were fired up over Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s refusal to tell the Commons when he sold 680,000 shares of his family’s financial services company Morneau Shepell.

Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre has been questioning Morneau all week about the date he sold his shares in Morneau Shepell, and has asked him specifically if he sold $10 million worth of shares one week before tabling a fiscal measure that would cause the value of the company’s shares to decrease by five per cent.

Poilievre had fresh ammunition today following a report in Global News that Morneau’s father sold 200,000 shares in their family company days before Morneau announced the tax changes. Poilievre repeatedly asked Morneau if it was just a coincidence that his father sold his shares one week before the new tax measures were introduced.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, for the most part, stuck to the line that Morneau has delivered for Canadians “time and time again” and that the opposition is resorting to slander. Trudeau said Poilievre has been careful not to repeat his claims outside the Commons — where he’s protected by parliamentary privilege — and said they amount to a “slanderous smear job.”

Conservative MP Alain Rayes – echoing an earlier call from Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer – asked when Trudeau would “fire the finance minister.”

NDP MP Guy Caron suggested the only way for Morneau to get out of this mess is to stand in the House and tell the truth.

More than once, Morneau said he has no secrets. Morneau also said that he did sell shares, but would not confirm the date of the sale.