Thank you, Chair.
At this juncture, the Conservatives will be voting in favour of the amendment.
Owing to the technical difficulties experienced by my colleague Mrs. Block and to complete the record, I wish to finish her thoughts.
Whether it's their friends at McKinsey getting special treatment and receiving government contracts, or former Liberal MPs and future Liberal leader hopefuls like Frank Baylis, whose company got a massive contract during the pandemic for ventilators that went unused and cost the government hundreds of millions of dollars only to be sold as scrap metal, we've also seen the complete lack of spending controls on major procurements like arrive scam, an app that started with an $80,000 initial price tag but ballooned to at least $60 million, according to the Auditor General.
Every step along the way, this government has tried to cover up these consequences of their failed governance. They voted against the audit of the ArriveCAN app, swearing that there was nothing to find and they swore there was nothing to find with the McKinsey contracting, yet, each time, malfeasance was found and has revealed a troubling pattern. Right before the House rose for the summer recess, it was reported that the government was purchasing a building right on Sparks Street. No practical reason for purchasing this building was given in the articles, but they did note that—surprise, surprise—a good friend—