Mr. Speaker, I was honestly getting to that. I would never forget the fabulous member for Calgary Nose Hill, who, I am sure everyone will agree, is one of the best parliamentarians in all of Canada. I would certainly never ever forget about her or any others, although the reminder is greatly appreciated.
I will read the motion into the record. We went through a series of steps, and we asked over and over again for the documents. Unfortunately, the government failed to provide them. The motion reads:
That this House find the Public Health Agency of Canada to be in contempt for its failure to obey the Order of the House, adopted on June 2, 2021, as well as the orders of the Special Committee on Canada-China Relations, adopted on March 31 and May 10, 2021, and, accordingly, orders its President to attend at the Bar of the House, at the expiry of the time provided for Oral Questions on the second sitting day following the adoption of this Order, for the purposes of (a) receiving, on behalf of the Agency, an admonishment delivered by the Speaker, and (b) delivering up the documents ordered by this House, on June 2, 2021, to be produced, so that they may be deposited with the Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel under the terms of that Order.
The Speaker made an excellent ruling on this. If we were to follow the rules of criminal justice, and I am not saying this is criminal, but using it as an analogy, once we got to the realm of deciding what the punishment should be, we would look at a suspect's former conduct. We cannot decide guilt or innocence on this, but we can use the Liberals' previous conduct to decide what type of censure or penalty we should focus on.
We look at the SNC-Lavalin affair, which was a significant potential interference in our judiciary system, and we look at the WE scandal, or the numerous other ethical breaches of the government, and we have to take this seriously. We have to review the past indiscretions when we see this indiscretion, which is disobeying the supremacy of Parliament.
Another great political philosopher Edmund Burke said, “The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.” When we know there is no more powerful office in the land than that of the Prime Minister and there are no concerns more important than that of national security, we have to take this with the utmost seriousness. I am sure that all parliamentarians will agree and look forward to unanimous support for this censure motion.
I continue to be extremely disappointed. As I said at the outset, I want to wake up from looking at the shadows and seeing the bits and pieces to see the outside world and the real threat posed by the Communist regime in Beijing.