Great. Thank you very much.
You know, it's interesting.... We have a country that's falling apart. We have a health care system that is crumbling before our eyes. As mentioned, there are 22 people dying every day from opioids. Therefore, bringing a motion forward with respect to $150 million at the health committee, which directly assesses the veracity of testimony given by the Minister of Health and the president of Medicago to the health committee, makes perfect sense. What better time to do it than when Dr. Powlowski didn't want his vacation or his time with his constituents interrupted, nor did Mr. Davies? That really makes no sense to me.
We're here to work on behalf of Canadians, and as Mr. Majumdar correctly pointed out, so many Canadians are reaching out to us. Listen, I'm sure they're reaching out to you guys and gals as well, whether you want to admit it or not, saying that they are being crushed by the fiscal irresponsibility of this government.
I find it laughable that Mr. Davies said that we didn't ask them to sign the 106(4), when he wouldn't sign a Standing Order 106(4) that was directly related to a loss of $2 billion more because a company lied and Health Canada knew about it but accepted it as being true and moved forward anyway. Why would I ask him to sign the letter when he won't even sign one for $2 billion? He won't sign one for $150 million. That results, of course, in the way he votes to gut this incredible motion for transparency that was before committee here today, which Dr. Hanley correctly said in his opening remarks.... He talked very clearly about transparency and then introduced an amendment to gut the transparency. Wow—talk about hypocrisy.
Anyway, do you know what? That being said, we know there are an innumerable number of scandals. There aren't enough committees to handle all the scandals this Liberal-NDP coalition government is creating. Of course, there are not enough committees to attempt to address the fiscal incompetence that continues.
Therefore, I'm quite happy to get to a vote so that we can ask everyone here where their cards are going to be laid and what side of history they are going to choose to be on: Will it be that of competence and good fiscal management, or are they going to continue to be the costly cover-up coalition? That's the question that will be answered here today.