Mr. Speaker, earlier in debate, the member opposite raised the relevance of the Liberal Party's vetting process for Canada, calling it rigorous. I will note that in 2019, the member for Kitchener South—Hespeler was green-lit by the party in spite of substantiated harassment allegations. To read from a CBC article, the allegations included “unwanted touching and lewd comments aimed at [a] female staffer."
I am wondering if the member supports the decision of the Liberal Party to allow the member for Kitchener South—Hespeler to run as a Liberal after knowing about these substantiated harassments. Does he believes that the party's vetting process is, as he said, rigorous, in light of these findings? What material changes have been made to the party's vetting process since 2019, given that there were substantiated harassment allegations against a member who was allowed to run and the party had full knowledge of them?