I'm going to get to that.
The NDP and the Liberals met with the Chief Electoral Officer. We asked the Chief Electoral Officer whether the question of Diwali came up in conversation at any of those meetings, and he answered in the negative. Now, if this was such a pressing issue, you would think that it would be part of the discussion with the Chief Electoral Officer, but it wasn't. Well, I guess I understand why: It's because it has nothing to do with Diwali, nothing to do with the Alberta municipal election, and everything to do with Liberal and NDP MPs padding their pockets on their way out the door—when they're shown the door by their voters—whenever the Prime Minister has the guts to call an election or whenever the sellout leader of the NDP has the fortitude to vote non-confidence in this costly and corrupt government that he has been complicit in propping up and supporting every step of the way, now including three times after he ripped up his coalition agreement on the eve of a by-election in Winnipeg, before he taped it back together and continued to sell out everyone.
So, they said Diwali. They said Diwali, but it never came up. They were asked about, instead of moving the election back, moving the election ahead a week, and they said that that's problematic because it conflicts with Thanksgiving. Okay, I get that. I don't want an election during Thanksgiving weekend. What's to say that we can't move it ahead by another week? Well, the excuse they offered was that it would conflict with Labour Day and the end of summer—except for the fact that it was perfectly fine for the Prime Minister to have an election that was called in the middle of August, that conflicted with Labour Day, in 2021, when he called an election to cover up the national security breach that occurred under his government's watch at the Winnipeg lab.
So, every excuse that they have offered doesn't add up. They speak about conflicting with a municipal election. Well, the date that they selected happened to conflict with a territorial election. That is what the NDP and Dominic LeBlanc cooked up—a date that conflicts with the territorial election in Nunavut. Now, if, in fact, one of the key issues, one of the key reasons, is to avoid a conflict with an election in another province, then wouldn't you think that one of the first things that would be done in selecting another date would be to see whether that date conflicts with any other election?
Of course, that's what would be done, but that wasn't the intent and that wasn't the reason the date was moved back. They thought they could just sneak this in so that Liberal and NDP MPs could succeed in securing their pensions. For them to be acting and speaking in a sanctimonious fashion in the face of this and saying they're offering solutions.... Well, they're the problem. They created this mess. They created this problem, and our position, very clearly, is that time's up, so let's get on with it.
Ms. Barron spoke about the motion that we put forward on November 26 to see that all of the communications between the Prime Minister's Office; the Prime Minister's department; the Chief Electoral Officer; the Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs; and NDP representatives be produced so that we can determine whose idea it was to push back the date of the next election. It's very interesting that when that motion was put forward on November 26, the Liberals, along with Ms. Barron, following the wishes or demands of her coalition masters, the Liberals, prevented that motion from going to a vote. She says she's very supportive of that motion, so—