Mr. Speaker, I did not ask her if it was the government of the day. I asked her about her vote. Why did she vote the way she did? She did not answer my question and she did not answer the question from the member from the Bloc, but I digress.
The government House leader made an excellent argument in his speech today. As has long been the case, political staff are accountable to their minister, who is in turn accountable to the House. I believe that is something everyone in the House should be able to agree with. I also think he was right when he said it tells a lot about our Conservative colleagues when they choose to play cheap partisan politics rather than debate important and pressing matters, such as climate change and the pandemic that currently grips this world.
Setting that aside, let the House also understand that the Conservative opposition has made an attempt to over-politicize issues that have been well covered and are now quite well understood. Thousands of pages of documents have been produced, a waiver was granted for cabinet confidentiality and hundreds of hours of testimony have been given at multiple committees.
I would like to turn my attention to focusing on the particular individuals who have been raised in this motion.
First, the Conservative opposition has been raising the name of Mr. Ben Chin in the House time after time and even now, nine months after the program in question was cancelled. Let us take a moment and examine why that may be. I believe they are raising this, because in response to a document production requested by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance, the government provided 5,000 pages of documents last summer. This was more—