Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I supported Mr. Poilievre's amendment, but the subamendment is really only adding a few extra hours.
One of the issues that has been important to my constituents and to the people of the country is that a lot of the money from these pandemic benefits bled into prisoners and criminal enterprises, which was noted at this committee in July of 2020. For some time, it was known that money potentially went into those groups, and then eventually that was basically all but proven. As an opposition, we requested in writing that the government do a full audit and investigation. There has been no agreement from the government to do that, and now they're trying to shovel this through as fast as they can, when the whole country is wondering where those pandemic benefits went.
It's not fair to Canadians to spend a few short days on billions of dollars of money when there are already potentially hundreds of millions that actually bled into criminals, and I don't think the government is very serious about finding out where that money went. The last thing we need in this country is to have criminal organizations benefiting from free money from the Government of Canada, so I don't support the subamendment. I think it's another example of the current government trying to get away from oversight. We've seen that from this government through and through for the last couple of years. This is yet another example of it. I'm not in favour of the subamendment. I am in favour of the amendment, though, from Mr. Poilievre.