Thank you very much to our witnesses today.
What we're discussing here—let's get to the root of it—is the WE scandal, where a half a billion dollars of taxpayers' money went to a kids' charity that paid off the Prime Minister's mother, as we know, half a million dollars. That's the root or the cause of why we're here today.
This is a prime minister who has been ethically challenged. He's the only prime minister who has ever been visited by the Ethics Commissioner this many times. There is no other prime minister who has been found guilty of this, so that's the root of why we're here today.
To the witnesses, we have the deputy House leader, deputy whip and some of the leading Liberal leadership with us today. On these ethically challenged decisions that were made to prorogue.... It was done on the day that we were supposed to get evidence that was redacted, and now we have learned that it has been destroyed, so there are some additional ethical issues that arise from that.
I come from western Canada, and there has never been a time when we have been more disillusioned with our country, our leadership and the direction of this country. In the last nine months, we went into billions and now over a trillion dollars in debt that is going to affect future generations, who will have less opportunity because of the decisions of this government.
We've all been paying attention, but Canadians haven't, because we have a pandemic that we're dealing with, and they're not realizing how much peril we are in as a country. I guess my question to Mr. Lagassé is this: Do you think the current media landscape and the current population of Canada are paying attention to these issues?