Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives are giving us a pretty good idea of what things were like during the final years of the Liberals' reign.
Conservative Party cronies such as Duffy, Brazeau, Housakos, Wallin and Gerstein filled their pockets with taxpayers' money, while fundraising for the party that appointed them.
Some will say that Liberal Party cronies are still fundraising for the party that appointed them, despite their leader's promises, but that is another story.
Let us get back to the issue at hand, our senators.
Two words: Colin Kenny. Is that not reason enough to abolish the Senate?
Seriously, why should Canadians have to put up with the Conservatives wasting public funds after everything they went through with the sponsorship scandal?
Just think of the PMO staffers who eat pizza on the taxpayers' dime instead of making a sandwich, or the former president of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation who wastes millions of dollars in taxpayers' money to promote an employment program that does not exist. Enough is enough.
Canadians deserve better than a Conservative government that disregards the provinces' wishes and uses taxpayers' money as if it were its own.