Madam Speaker, once again the parliamentary secretary has been sent to offer excuses for the failures of the minister.
The claim that the Liberals are investigating is laughable. We all know they are covering this up to protect the Prime Minister again. When he made the immature remark about whipping out fighter jets, he was trying to brand himself as more enlightened. As a result, he recalled the fighter jets from Operation Impact and sent our troops to act as trainers on the ground.
Learning we were training war criminals goes against the Prime Minister's brand, but instead of reversing this immature policy, they covered it up, because in the Liberal government there is no higher obligation than to protect the Prime Minister's brand. Everything else is secondary. From the first indigenous justice minister to sexual assault survivors, they are all cannon fodder, human shields thrown out to protect the brand from incoming questions and investigations. If the parliamentary secretary disagrees, I encourage her to prove it by ending the Liberal filibuster at the defence committee.