The Prime Minister was deceitful to Canadians, Mr. Chair. Instead of telling the truth, he said he was in Ottawa engaged in private meetings, when in fact he furthered his own selfish private interests by taking a surfing vacation on the very first day that he created. It was embarrassing. It was shameful. It was an event that should not have happened.
Again, these are things that I wanted to bring to the attention of this committee, that this Jamaican Christmas vacation now is not a one-off. It displays a pattern of miscommunication and deceit by the Prime Minister's Office, giving three different versions of the truth as to what they communicated to the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner. We as parliamentarians, but more importantly Canadians from coast to coast to coast, need some daylight shed on this issue.
For all those reasons, I support my colleague's motion.