Mr. Speaker, toxic masculinity is not a military problem. It is a Liberal Party problem.
I am strong, proud and ready, as the member of Parliament for Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, to represent Garrison Petawawa. It is the 4th Canadian Division Support Base, and includes 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group, the Canadian Special Operations Regiment, 1st Canadian Field Hospital, 450 Tactical Helicopter Squadron, 427 Special Operations Aviation Squadron, the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the Royal Canadian Regiment, 2nd Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, the Royal Canadian Dragoons, 2 Service Battalion and a multitude of other support units. I salute them all for their service to our country.
On May 4, I asked the Prime Minister why he thinks repeating the same mistake will get a different result. In his place, Canadians had to listen to the predictable talking points of the Minister of National Defence, who is ordered to regurgitate those every day.
I also asked if the only woman he was interested in protecting was Katie Telford. While the Prime Minister was afraid to face Canadians with the truth during question period, Canadians got their answer last Friday. The Prime Minister did what he does best: He threw another woman under the bus. The first person who should have stood up to the Prime Minister's toxic masculinity was his chief of staff, Katie Telford. The fact she did not is reason alone she should be dismissed.
Will she now become another piece of female Liberal roadkill, joining the former justice minister, the former health minister and the former MP for Whitby, to name a few? Who could forget the cringeworthy shot of the female MP for Waterloo who was sent to take the fall for the Prime Minister's WE family scandal, crouching in a demeaning position behind the Prime Minister in costume for a photo op during the Prime Minister's outrageous Bollywood tour?
Canadians are disappointed in the female members of the Liberal caucus because they will not stand up for victims of sexual assault. The majority of victims are women. Female Liberal MPs who at one point in their career wore the uniform and were members of the Canadian Armed Forces should know better. By not standing up for sexual assault victims and enabling the toxic masculinity of the Prime Minister, they have become victims themselves. If they want to break the cycle, it starts with them.
Leadership in any organization starts at the top. Did the female Liberal MPs ever stop to think about the victims of sexual abuse? The fact that their toxic masculinity has real effects on real people seems to escape the understanding of the Liberal Party. The Prime Minister's toxic masculinity is never going to change unless members of his own caucus and his own party stand up to him.
Some members of the Liberal Party may feel I am making the refusal by the Prime Minister to answer my question during question period a bit too personal by calling out individual female Liberal MPs, such as the member for Kanata—Carleton for her role in enabling the toxic masculinity of the Prime Minister. Well, this is personal.
This is not about Katie Telford or the Prime Minister. This is about the victims. Every victim of sexual assault is a person. Let us take some time to stop and think about the victims of sexual assault. That is what my unanswered question to the Prime Minister was really about.