Thank you very much.
First of all, thank you very much to the witnesses for coming here today for this important issue. In fact, my team felt that it was very important. There are certainly Canadians across the country who are suffering significantly as a result of this problem—not only on one account, but on two accounts, the first one being that they were victims of fraud. I'm certain that we've all known about this problem. It has existed within our country for some time, and this is another example of it. Second, unfortunately, due to the delays, some of these accounts were frozen, so these individuals, in addition to not having received their money, couldn't even hope for it in a reasonable time frame.
For my team, it was very important to get the two ministers here, but for some reason the Liberals, supported by the NDP members—who claim they care very much about their constituents and about the highest level of accountability and solving this problem—worked together and colluded together. I know the Prime Minister has talked about not having an obstructionist agenda, but in fact the Conservative Party, which I represent, received a majority of Canadian votes. When the other groups are working together, they're actually working against the majority of Canadian voters.
I would like to ask Ms. MacDonald, why does she believe that the Liberal government, supported by the New Democratic Party, did not want the ministers to appear today? Why does she think that these two parties, working together against those who were victims both of the system and of fraud, did not want the ministers here today?