Thank you very much.
Listen, I know that the government members on this committee would like to cover this matter up as inconspicuously as possible. That's why, of course, they're asking for the discussions on the future study to happen in a secret meeting. I have heard them. They're heckling and so are their supporters in the gallery whenever we point out that fact, but the reality is that the principal player at the heart of this matter is Ms. Jody Wilson-Raybould. She is the former attorney general. She has resigned to preserve her integrity after a series of highly suspect activities that we now know occurred. Those activities, of course, were 14 meetings between SNC-Lavalin and the PMO, meetings between high-level PMO officials and Ms. Raybould, including discussions involving the Prime Minister himself, all regarding the possibility of a special deal for a large accused corporate criminal. She has, in a highly unusual move, resigned from cabinet and said that one of the reasons she believed she was originally moved from her position was that she spoke truth to power.
The only point of even holding these discussion is so that we can hear from her, and yet the Prime Minister is silencing her. He's using his legal authority to prevent her from speaking because he's afraid of what she has to say. What Conservatives are asking, what Canadians are asking, is to let her speak. Now, the Prime Minister is the client. The client can waive solicitor-client privilege. I don't even know why this is a matter of controversy for members across the way. If they wanted the truth to come out, then they would be willing without hesitation to support a call for the Prime Minister to do that. I conclude my remarks with a motion:
That the committee call on the Prime Minister to immediately waive any purported solicitor-client privilege involving the former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould in respect of the SNC-Lavalin matter so that Ms. Wilson-Raybould can speak.
Thank you.