It is clear, Mr. Speaker, that the member perhaps has his facts wrong after all of these weeks of talking about it.
The Prime Minister said that May 15, when this came out in the media, was when he learned of the cheque. He addressed the people on the staff who may have known about this in July when Nigel Wright, in court filings, identified the people he brought into his confidence on this.
The reality is that right now in the Senate we have a vote to suspend these three senators. It is the Liberal senators who are standing in the way, obstructing this, and they are doing that because they support the status quo. They need to get out of the way, let us pass this suspension motion and get on with reforming the Senate.