Madam Speaker, I have not been up in the House in many months and I might have been a little rusty, but one thing that has not changed is that the deputy House leader is still talking a lot.
Let me correct him a little on my conversation with the Prime Minister, who called me the day after I won the leadership. I raised two issues. First was the unity of the country, because I am worried about it and I love this country. The second thing was the return of committees. My friend seemed to leave that out.
Was the prorogation really about writing the speech that has been widely panned, or was the prorogation to stop my friend from Carleton from asking difficult questions, or my friend from Rideau Lakes from asking difficult questions? What was most disappointing, of course, is that the Prime Minister promised, and this is broken promise number 28 or 29, that he would never prorogue Parliament to stop embarrassing questions from happening. I think those were his words.
The final thing I will say, which the deputy House leader raised, is that he wanted to give us binders full of stakeholders the Liberals talked to throughout this pandemic. Of course Parliament was suppressed and was not sitting. The Liberals starved the Auditor General of a budget to really look over the extent of the spending. They are using national security exemptions to hide which countries won some of the tenders. With such minimal information out there, we already found out about the Kielburgers and WE, and we already found out about their old pal, Frank, who got a contract at Baylis Medical just months after leaving as an MP.
The stakeholders of the Liberal government are Laurier Club Liberal donors, and Canadians are tired of being left out of the elite inner-circle politics of the Prime Minister.