Mr. Speaker, no, I am not denigrating the work of the committee, but I think it is incomplete. In committee, we analyzed the administrative problem in depth, but failed to analyze the political aspect of it, the aspect that was hurting the government, the aspect that revealed the Liberals had used public funds for partisan purposes. This is the aspect we failed to consider.
The report contained valuable recommendations, such as “It is time this department was managed like all the others”. The report said, among other things, that money should not be squandered at the end of the fiscal year simply because it would no longer be available in April or May. This kind of recommendation seems important to me.
But for the root of the problem, which we explained in our minority report—even if I proposed the dismantling of the department—as I have always said, an independent and public inquiry would be necessary. We continue the battle today, and the matter has been brought before the House, because the committee, with its government majority, has ignored the will of the people as expressed by the opposition parties.
This is why I want to get to the bottom of things. We are talking about the integrity of all parliamentarians in this country.