Public Accounts Committee on Oct. 9th, 2024

[Rick Perkins, Conservative, South Shore—St. Margarets, NS]

Thank you. I'll take the floor.

[Iqra Khalid, Liberal, Mississauga—Erin Mills, ON]

—but I will take it back after he's done, Chair, just so we're clear.

I'm doing you a favour. If you want to say something, Mr. Perkins, you can say it.

[Rick Perkins, Conservative, South Shore—St. Margarets, NS]

I'll take the floor for the next one minute that I think we have left.

[The Chair, Conservative, John Williamson]

The floor is yours.

[Rick Perkins, Conservative, South Shore—St. Margarets, NS]

The hypocrisy of the Liberals knows no end. I'm amazed by it every day. Here they're saying they object to a particular word in a motion. The NDP member—

[Iqra Khalid, Liberal, Mississauga—Erin Mills, ON]

Calling people liars—

[Rick Perkins, Conservative, South Shore—St. Margarets, NS]

—offered a perfectly reasonable solution, which was to withdraw the word, and then the member objected to the word that she objected to being withdrawn.

[Iqra Khalid, Liberal, Mississauga—Erin Mills, ON]

This is not a reasonable solution. A privilege motion is not reasonable.

[Rick Perkins, Conservative, South Shore—St. Margarets, NS]

That's the definition. If you don't know, look it up. The definition of “hypocrisy” is saying, “I want a word removed,” and then, when it's offered to be removed, objecting to its being removed. We've been here while you guys continue to filibuster to cover up your cover-up on the—

[Iqra Khalid, Liberal, Mississauga—Erin Mills, ON]

It's through the chair. Isn't that right?

[Rick Perkins, Conservative, South Shore—St. Margarets, NS]

It's you guys. The chair is not covering it up; the Liberals are covering up their cover-up on their scandal—

[Iqra Khalid, Liberal, Mississauga—Erin Mills, ON]

Through the chair—

[Francis Drouin, Liberal, Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON]

On a point of order, Mr. Chair, can the member speak to the motion at hand?

[Rick Perkins, Conservative, South Shore—St. Margarets, NS]

Yes. The motion is that you're objecting—

[Iqra Khalid, Liberal, Mississauga—Erin Mills, ON]

Chair, this is repetitiveness.

[Rick Perkins, Conservative, South Shore—St. Margarets, NS]

—to the privilege motion and the words in the privilege motion.

A former minister, when asked questions, couldn't answer a simple question: “Did you have a conversation?” As was testified by his own appointed chair, they had two conversations about taking over the chair, and he couldn't even say yes or no as to whether he had those conversations. He then talked about something totally unrelated to the question.

The very essence of hypocrisy is what we saw here tonight with the Liberals in their attempts to yet again cover up a cover-up over a cover-up over a cover-up. It's one cover-up after another cover-up over another cover-up. The documents—

[Iqra Khalid, Liberal, Mississauga—Erin Mills, ON]

I have a point of order, Mr. Chair.

[Rick Perkins, Conservative, South Shore—St. Margarets, NS]

—and the testimony that they're trying to prevent—

[The Chair, Conservative, John Williamson]

Mr. Perkins, there is a point of order.

[Iqra Khalid, Liberal, Mississauga—Erin Mills, ON]

Mr. Chair, I would like to call the exact same point of order on repetitiveness for Mr. Perkins.

[The Chair, Conservative, John Williamson]

Mr. Perkins, why don't you wrap up? We're on the cusp here.

[Rick Perkins, Conservative, South Shore—St. Margarets, NS]

Here we go.

The original study is about the corruption of Liberal appointees in the Liberal—

[An hon. member]

Mr. Chair, that is way off topic.

[Rick Perkins, Conservative, South Shore—St. Margarets, NS]

We have had witness after witness come here, and all of them have answered the questions except for one—

[Iqra Khalid, Liberal, Mississauga—Erin Mills, ON]

On a point of order—