Mr. Speaker, Conservatives are hearing from constituents who are angry about the Senate scandal and the PMO cover-up.
People are angry about how a senator can get paid off by the Prime Minister's chief of staff, and government backbenchers are angry about being given evasive talking points by the PMO that range from the implausible to the unbelievable.
I, for one, agree with the member from Kootenay—Columbia who said:
Any person who holds a public office position...should not only withstand public scrutiny, but stand before the public to explain any short comings.
Remember what the then-leader of the opposition said in 2005:
When you're under the kind of cloud the Prime Minister admits his government is under, I think you would use every opportunity to be as forthright as possible.
Yet the Prime Minister now acts just like past Liberal prime ministers, evading questions and refusing to come clean.
Canadians deserve better.