Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague from Louis-Hébert for his speech. Pardon me, I mean my colleague from Louis-Saint-Laurent.
I also want to congratulate him on the anniversary of his journalistic career. It seems he may have forgotten how to be the good journalist he was 20 years ago. He did not get all the facts. There is something he forgot to consider, and that is the role of the Harper government, which was the first government in the entire Commonwealth to be found in contempt of the House of Commons for refusing to disclose certain information. Indeed, the government violated the Access to Information Act.
My colleague also forgot to mention that the Conservative government was the first government to be taken to court by the Parliamentary Budget Officer.
That government also cut the Auditor General's budget by $6.4 million. It cut the long-form census.
I wonder if the hon. member would like to go through the depths of this and take a look at the previous Conservative government.
I should mention that he was not a member of Parliament at the time, but he still has to defend his government's record.
I would like to know how he can defend the Conservative government's record on access to information and all the measures it took to get around the legal requirements at the time.