Madam Speaker, I am very worried about the future of our country. Our institutions have been weakened in recent years and all Canadians should be very alarmed at the state of these institutions. I have never seen institutions so weak in my lifetime and possibly never so weak in our history as they are now.
We do not have a governor general because the previous governor general resigned due to scandal. We do not have a permanent clerk of the Privy Council. The previous clerk resigned because of scandal. Eight senior members of the Canadian Armed Forces have resigned or have been removed from their posts in recent months. We have a Parliament that is unable to get documents about a serious matter that concerns the government's National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. We have institutions that are failing Canadians and the government just snubs its nose at all of these issues.
We need to wake up. We are in trouble as a country. Our institutions are in trouble. It is—