Madam Speaker, I will try to repeat what I said.
I was saying that my colleague is right. A parliamentarian's primary role is not to defend the Prime Minister, but to hold the government accountable. Regardless of our political persuasion, our duty as parliamentarians is to hold the government to account. My colleague is right, and that is what we are debating today.
This opposition day, we are debating whether to create a special committee to examine a scandal, which should already be a given. We have to spend time on this here, when this is something the committees could look into and we have a pandemic to manage.
Could my colleague tell me why he thinks the other side of the House is calling this special committee a partisan tactic, when creating this committee is fully warranted as part of our role as parliamentarians?