I mean, the piece in Global repeatedly acknowledged that Minister Boissonnault has always followed all of the ethics rules that apply to him as an elected official. It even includes confirmation of this from the Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner. Global even quoted, I believe, experts that said that was the case.
From what I can see in the article, Minister Boissonnault has done nothing wrong. I think that your motion, Mr. Barrett, is clearly reaching. Certainly, if it's something that the commissioners see an interest in studying and taking a look at.... We didn't move forward with a motion to do a study on Jenni Byrne as she was related to Pierre Poilievre in the office of the Conservative opposition leader, because it's being studied; it's being looked at by the commissioner. We'll wait to see if where there's smoke, there's fire.
I don't see this at this moment as something that this committee needs to.... You know, we've certainly got names that we can add to that study if the committee is so eager, if the Conservatives are so eager to bring forward a conversation on this. We have names we can add to that. We can certainly make that study a bit more fulsome. There are certainly some names from Forecheck, but I would suggest that, if the commissioners feel that there's something here, they will take a peek at that. Mr. Barrett, I'm sure you remember the commissioners saying that members can reach out to them about some of their concerns, but I don't see that as something that should be started here at this committee and impede the things we've worked on and the calendar we've built of the things that we want to study.
