Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I sense that people feel passionate about this issue, even at this hour.
If people have stolen money, we need to let the RCMP do its job. Let the RCMP conduct its own investigation. If there are guilty parties, they should be brought before a judge and put in jail. I have no problem with that.
The problem is that this is a wild goose chase, so to speak. It's a wild goose chase and Mr. Bains is the target. They're doing the same thing to Minister Champagne, despite knowing full well that he's viewing all this from 20,000 feet in the air and that he doesn't see these details. The problem I have with this is that the opposition has heard the arguments loud and clear.
This week, a board member was even asked about things that didn't happen. She was asked what she was going to do. Can we let the board see the report before making a decision? That would be the rational thing to do, but that's not what we're doing. Accusations are being made. We want to sully the reputation of people who have nothing to do with this. The goal is to add more names to the Conservative Party database and to raise even more money. We've heard it—