Madam Speaker, tomorrow is October 21, and I do not need to remind my colleagues what happened on that date last year.
I simply want to point out that it has been one year since the election and the government has yet to present a budget. We trusted the government with the extraordinary spending, since there were extraordinary circumstances. We trusted that these measures needed to be implemented. We even expanded and improved them. I think an apology is in order today.
Today's debate has to do with a committee that would keep looking into the WE scandal. The government does not want to debate the substance of the motion. It would rather talk about an election, which has nothing to do with this motion.
The purpose of the motion is to pick up where we left off. The debate on WE Charity is urgent and necessary, but the Liberal government wanted to put an end to it. We need to resume debate on this matter, and we owe it to the Quebeckers who were outraged about how this played out. We also owe it to all of the parliamentarians who need to get back to work. The Liberal government decided to suspend operations on August 18, in the hopes that this matter would be forgotten and to remind everyone that Canada is in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic is serious, but not so serious that we cannot debate creating a special committee to get to the bottom of the WE scandal.