Mr. Speaker, since last week, the Liberal government has been in hot water. Allegations of influence peddling have been pouring down on the Liberal Party of Canada and on certain individuals in key positions within the government.
Yet the Prime Minister and the President of the Treasury Board refuse to budge, hiding behind lame excuses.
Those who spend years teaching others to keep clean cannot take any risk when it comes to cleaning up their own house.
Yet the government's ethics counsellor works quietly, behind closed doors. Departmental employees are blithely breaking the government's code of ethics. There is still no legislation to make political party financing more transparent. The real policy of the government in this area is nothing but a sham.
Considering the way the government has been acting, it can no longer afford to give anybody lessons in public ethics.