Thanks, Mr. Chair.
It's true I sponsored the original motion. Throughout the last three weeks we've been hit by revelation after revelation, things that were told to us that were supposedly facts that turned out to be very different. That's why this scandal has exploded. For any member of this committee to say we don't want to go any further because we may uncover other contradictions, other dishonesty within what we and what Canadians have been told originally, I think would not be doing the due diligence that we as a committee need to undertake. We need to get that information and we need to get these answers for Canadians.
It's very clear that, as this has gone along, a massive number of revelations have come in around the finance minister, around the Prime Minister's involvement and around the complete lack of due diligence in this mess. I can understand Liberals putting on a partisan hat and saying they don't want to get any further information, but we, all of us, do have a responsibility to get that information and to compare the facts so that we know what has actually occurred. That's why I'm supporting the motion. I think we have to do that due diligence. It did not happen in the government. Our responsibility as parliamentarians is to perform that due diligence.