I thank my colleagues for granting the unanimous consent, and thank you both for appearing here today.
Mr. Conacher, you have obviously made some very serious allegations about the proposed Federal Accountability Act. In your release of last week, you stated that the Prime Minister, the President of the Treasury Board, and the Prime Minister's spokespersons are being dishonest and claimed a number of broken promises.
You've reiterated those claims today, and I challenge those. I would argue that...you use the term “offensive”. Well, quite frankly, with respect, sir, I find it offensive that you would make those comments and those claims against this legislation.
I want to go over a few of your accusations today. Obviously, I don't have a lot of time, so I can't go through every single one of them, but I do want to point out a few.
The first accusation is that the promise to enshrine the conflict of interest code into law is a broken promise. I would ask you, sir, do you have a copy of the bill with you?