Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Bains, I've heard a lot of sanctimonious accusations towards you, and I'm not going to repeat the line. However, you are a private individual, and I respect that. I hope that when former ministers come to this committee, we have the respect to treat them as private citizens.
The official opposition is making a lot of accusations, such as wasting taxpayer dollars or not being accountable, but I have yet to hear any member of the official opposition speak on their conduct of spending private taxpayer dollars on party conventions. I'm just waiting to hear if Mr. Perkins, Mr. Brock or Mr. Nater paid back the dollars. They want to come into power, yet they're lecturing us on the importance of spending taxpayer dollars. We stopped this practice in 2014, but the Conservatives haven't stopped that.