Mr. Speaker, as we head into a long weekend, we are all preparing to return to our ridings and answer to our constituents. I would recommend to my Conservative colleagues that they prepare some credible answers to certain embarrassing questions, as opposed to what they answered here in the House.
They will have to explain what the Prime Minister meant when he talked about “financial considerations” offered to Chuck Cadman to try to buy his vote. They will have to explain why the Minister of Finance absolutely had to hire his little buddy, paying him over $300,000 and ignoring Treasury Board rules. They will have to explain why the Prime Minister is about to commit nearly $100 billion in new defence spending.
Yes, Mr. Speaker, if I were one of their constituents, I would be extremely interested in these questions.