The House of Commons is making news for all the wrong reasons this week.

Prime minister Justin Trudeau was accused of "manhandling" Opposition whip Gord Brown and elbowing NDP MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau as the house was getting ready to vote on a reading of the Doctor Assisted Dying Bill C-14.

Foothills MP John Barlow saw first hand what happened on Wednesday and says it's not uncommon to see fellow MPs of all political parties discuss their votes and the prime minister's actions were ill-advised.

"I really need to stress that anything that happened on the floor really makes the prime minister irrelevant to the prime minister's actions," he says. "What he did was a decision he made alone and he is the one that has to take responsibility for what occurred Wednesday."

Barlow says the move and additional media attention that came with Trudeau's actions makes all politicians look bad in Canada.

"This is unfortunately an embarrassment to all of us as parliamentarians, certainly to our House of Commons, something I think all Canadians take pride in. If this is a member of parliament certainly this would be disappointing but the fact that our prime minister acted in this manner to me is egregious because I think he should be held to a higher standard, as he is not only the leader of the house but of all Canadians."

With a majority government in the Liberals favour, Barlow says this situation could have easily been avoided if the controlling power of the House of Commons would have just stayed in their seats.

"He was trying to get a vote through before six o'clock, he could see that the clock was ticking, he wanted to get the vote going but he could have got it going if his own whip (Andrew Leslie) would have sat in his seat and asked the speaker of the house to begin the votes. There was no reason for the prime minister to leave his seat and act the way he did."

Trudeau has since apologized numerous times for his actions to both Brown and Brosseau.