Thank you, Chair.
As much as I've been disrespected by members of his party, I will continue to talk about what matters to Canadians.
What we are doing here this evening is using our parliamentary House of Commons resources to push forward a narrative by the Conservatives that says, “Look, it's a scandal; something is wrong here.” The member across the way, who is continuing to chirp at me, has said there is a conspiracy and the conspiracy continues.
We need to be better for Canadians. This is the public accounts committee. We need to find better ways of building consensus and need to find ways to review the work of the government. When I said “government”, as you will have noticed, I did not say “Liberal government”. I am referring to governments that preceded ours and governments in the future—holding all of them to account. If we are not able to do that, and if we start, as I have seen over the past number of months and years, using committees to push forward conspiracies, we're in trouble. I think our country is in trouble with that kind of narrative. The politics of agitation is the biggest corroder of our democracy.