Madam Speaker, every time I give a speech in the House about a bill or a motion, I always rise to say that I am pleased to speak to a particular subject. Today, however, I cannot say that I am happy to speak. These are strange times we are living through.
This is the first time, in the history of the Parliament of Canada, in 150 years, that a government, regardless of stripe, has turned a general-interest motion into a confidence vote.
This motion is simply about creating a committee. It is not a confidence vote on a budget. All we want is a committee. The government is turning this situation into a confidence vote, knowing full well that this is a very bad time to trigger an election. There is a pandemic that we need to manage. We are here, debating in Parliament, but we cannot forget about the virus or forget that we are in the middle of the COVID-19 crisis.
We need to get back to basics and come back to the reason why we have a motion before us today, one that is very detailed and comprehensive, clear and true. That is the very serious problem facing our Liberal friends. They know full well that we are right, that the opposition parties—and I thank my colleagues from the Bloc Québécois for working with us on this issue—are not doing this just for fun or to waste time. We are not here to have fun.
We are very serious in our approach and we need to manage the decisions made by a government that is always up to something fishy. It never stops. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government even said so himself earlier when he mentioned that the Conservatives have been talking to them about ethics for five years. There must be a reason for that.
Why have we been bringing up ethical problems for five years? It is because the Liberals create ethical problems. There are two reports with the Trudeau name on them. A third is coming, which will likely be entitled “Trudeau III”. We are not making this up. These reports exist. They are there. These are the facts. Right now—