Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Deputy Prime Minister.
Yesterday's auditor general report stated that even the best codes of conduct or conflict of interest guidelines could not protect Canadians from a government that was not fundamentally honest. The report made clear that we could not expect ethical behaviour from public servants if we do not have it from their leadership, the cabinet.
After appointing an ethics counsellor that is completely beholden to the office so that he will forever be able to hide all ethics scandals, how could the Prime Minister expect his public servants to behave ethically even when they know they cannot get caught?