Yes, science, and you mean Liberal talking points. It seems like we're just spinning over and over again.
It just sounds like this is not a new government at all. The Liberals like to say, “This is a new Liberal government.” It's really a rebranding exercise. It's the same as we saw with PrescribeIT, which is being held up in the health committee. We have seen it here with the space pad money pit for $200 million. It's the same type of Liberal scandal, Liberal corruption and Liberal cover-up that we saw in the last Liberal government under the last Liberal prime minister. It seems that nothing has changed.
We talk about rockets, satellites, launch capacity, our sovereign access to space and Canada's role in the frontier of science and technology. These are all noble pursuits, well within the purview of the science and research committee, but when you look beneath those glossy Liberal press releases, which are quite....
I know that members opposite are going to say, “You can't say that's partisan. How can you say that of press releases from the minister's office?” Okay, let's take a look at the budget in 2025, the costly credit card Liberal budget that's smacking billions and doubling our deficit. You thought that Justin Trudeau, the last Liberal prime minister, had an inflationary spending problem. Well, the new Prime Minister, who touts himself as the economist, has managed to double the deficit. We didn't think that would even be possible in the Canadian imagination, yet they did that.
Let's look at the cover of the two Liberal propaganda booklets. One is called “Canada Strong for All: Spring Economic Update 2026”. What is the Liberal Party's slogan? It's “Canada Strong”. If you go to the Liberal Party convention, which is a partisan activity—of course, every party has its own convention—they literally have “Canada Strong” as their slogan, so now we're conflating party lines with the government.
Of course, the Liberals love to blur lines. They blur the lines of partisanship and government, which should be separate. They blur the lines of private interest and public interest to the point where NGOs, these public sector organizations, as they call them, are really just funded by the public. You think they're private—some of them are privately owned—but they're fully dependent on handouts from the Liberal government, and they're staffed by former Liberal staffers and former Liberal MPs, which blurs the lines. They also blur the lines of the executive branch and the legislative branch.
They also blur the lines of the judicial branch of government. I don't want to get into that, but for example, 20% of federal judicial appointments are Liberal Party donors. Given that fewer than 1% of all Canadians donate to a political party at all, which is pretty high, something like 1% of donors, according to the study, are Conservatives who are judicially appointed.
Conservative donors who get appointed to judicial benches seem to match up with the public.... Fewer than 1% of Canadians donate to any political party. Fewer than 1% of them are Conservative donors, and 20% of judicial appointments are Liberal Party donors, so they are literally paying into the re-election funds of Liberal members of Parliament and the Liberal Party, and then they get a judicial appointment.
I'm not saying that they're getting it in return, but one can make that characterization if they connect those dots. They blur the lines of the judiciary, which is supposed to hold this government to account. They put in activist judges. I have a great respect for judges, as I'm someone who is a lawyer by training, but not when they're staffed by activists and they're decided by political appointments.