Madam Speaker, it certainly permeates the whole government and the civil servants that it controls. The Deputy Prime Minister kept saying today that the Liberals wanted to get to the bottom of this. I think when they do, they will find that it is their reflection looking back at them. When the benchmark is set that low, it will not take that long to get to the bottom. We see the polls dropping already.
The PM's favourite consultants, Earnscliffe, received over $6 million in contracts since 1993, including $800,000 during his leadership run. Again with those, as in Gagliano's MO, there were no written reports. Therefore, the government cannot just point to the former minister of public works and say that he did not like to write things down. These guys do not request things written down.
There is a quote from Thomas Sowell that I noticed. He states, “Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest”. The Liberals are masters at that and it is about to come crashing down.