They are a bunch of serial lawbreakers. Indeed, the Prime Minister, their leader, is probably the biggest lawbreaker among them.
With respect to the motion that has been put forward by Mr. Barrett, the central question that must be answered is this: Who is Randy? Where is Randy, by the way? Where is he? He seems to be in hiding in the wake of today's report in the National Post, which said that he fraudulently represented that his company was indigenous owned to secure millions of dollars in a federal contract. Where is he? It would be nice if he could show his face.
There is an affidavit that was filed on November 5, which we now have a copy of. Contained within the affidavit is a series of exhibits that include new text messages that cast further doubt about the minister's truthfulness when he came before this committee. I think it's important to look at the track record of this minister when it comes to telling the truth and when it comes to being forthcoming.
This is a minister who came to this committee in June and was adamant that he wasn't the Randy in the text messages, but of course, the Ghaoui Group believed at all times that the Randy in the text messages was the Minister of Employment.
Stephen Anderson was asked by Global News, “Who is the Randy in the text messages?” He said, “Well, it's the VP of logistics.” When Global News looked into who is the VP of logistics, they found that it was not a “Randy” but a guy by the name of Edward Anderson, who turns out to be Stephen Anderson's father, Stephen Anderson being the shady business partner of the Minister of Employment.
Global News made further inquiries to find a trace of this other Randy. They couldn't. Stephen Anderson came before the committee and said there was only one Randy that was ever connected to Global Health Imports, and that is the Minister of Employment. That's not to mention the fact that in the original text messages that were discovered, Randy is referenced in the context of being a partner.
It turns out that the Minister of Employment was a partner with Stephen Anderson up until he was elected in 2021. At the time of the text messages, the minister had a 50% ownership stake in the company, Global Health Imports.
In the face of all that, without any trace of another Randy, without any credible explanation of who this other Randy could be, there is really only one conclusion that can be drawn on the question of who Randy is, which is that Randy is the Minister of Employment, the minister from Edmonton, a Randy who shook down Global Health Imports in a half-million-dollar wire fraud scheme, a Randy who was a 50% owner, a partner in a company that has been ordered by Alberta courts to pay back clients $7.8 million for ripping them off.
We have a minister now who is part of a company that has been sued by The Ghaoui Group for this half-million-dollar shakedown when Global Health Imports failed to deliver the PPE that had been ordered, pursuant to the contract that they had entered into.
When the minister came to committee in June, one of the things his office did at the time was issue a statement that it could not have been the minister, because the minister was in Vancouver on September 8, 2022, at a cabinet meeting, and didn't have access to his phone. Therefore, it was impossible that the Randy in the text messages was the minister. Then, after he appeared before the committee for the first time, Global News uncovered new text messages—