Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Deputy Prime Minister.
Canadians are becoming weary of the endless, empty talk on government ethnics; all talk, no action.
After appointing an ethics counsellor who is completely beholden to the Prime Minister, the government is now moving to draft a code of conduct for MPs and senators, but it has decided to let MPs and senators, under the influence of lobbyists, write their own code of conduct, with no input from regular Canadians. That sounds somewhat like putting Mr. Fox and Mr. Weasel in charge of chicken coop security.
Can the Deputy Prime Minister please tell the House how this obvious conflict of interest is going to enhance public trust of government?