House of Commons Speaker Greg Fergus says he will not be stepping down amid calls for his resignation following the ejection of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre during Question Period on Tuesday.

Poilievre called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “wacko” and refused to withdraw the comment despite repeated requests from the Speaker’s chair to do so.

Meanwhile, MPs are responding to yesterday’s sitting of the House of Commons with concern and in some cases disgust.

Green Party MP Elizabeth May called it a “gong show.”

“It was a disgrace,” May told reporters outside the Chamber. She’s asking her fellow parliamentarians to look in their hearts and imagine “scoring one day’s points in a national news cycle is not worth making a single additional Canadian think, ‘I’m disgusted with all of them, and I don’t want to vote.’ “