Mr. Chair, I will move:
That the Procedure and House Affairs committee invite the Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister to appear to answer all questions related to its study on the question of privilege related to “the matter of the premature disclosure of the contents of Bill C-14 (An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)”.
This is simply an opportunity. We're going to give the government members a fifth opportunity today to try to demonstrate some kind of accountability, some kind of transparency on the part of their government. It was made very clear that the Prime Minister's office did have access to the contents of legislation when the leaks were made about what was or wasn't in the bill. That knowledge would have existed, and this is an opportunity for the chief of staff of the Prime Minister to answer on behalf of the Prime Minister's office as to whether the Prime Minister's office was the source of the leaks and what they had done to try to take steps to ensure this does not happen again.
It's a very troubling pattern in this government of words not matching their actions. We've seen that on a number of occasions, too numerous to even begin to count. It's a very sad record that they have in this regard, Mr. Chair, and also in terms of their accountability or transparency. We've seen these limo rides by the Minister of Health. We've seen the exorbitant moving costs, these cash payments being made. After being caught, they started paying back portions of it.
There's a really troubling pattern in this government of a sense of entitlement, of a lack of accountability and a lack of transparency, and this just seems to fit with that pattern. I really hope that government members, given their fifth opportunity today to be accountable, to be transparent to the Canadian public, will choose to stand up and show that they are serious about this matter.