Madam Speaker, I will get back to where I was.
I could not think of a worse front person for this attack than the member for Regina—Qu'Appelle. I will point out over the next 10 minutes or so that not only has this individual continually shown a lack of regard and respect for the rules of this place and Elections Canada, and just about everywhere he crosses someone's path, but he is extremely hypocritical and has committed the exact same offence that he is now, with the new information that he has provided, accusing the Speaker of committing.
I think it is important that we reflect on this a bit. Let us go over some of the things the member for Regina—Qu'Appelle has been involved in.
In 2012, the Speaker's riding shifted cash to a Tory campaign in the robocall probe, and it is worse than that. In the lead-up to that election, the member would have been Deputy Speaker, and as a Globe and Mail article notes:
Elections Canada records suggest this was the only Conservative riding association outside Guelph to transfer cash to Mr. Burke's campaign during the writ period.
[The member for Regina—Qu'Appelle] has served as Conservative MP for the Saskatchewan riding...since 2004. It was only after the 2011 ballot that he was elected Speaker of the House of Commons....
That is fair enough, but during this time, after he became Speaker, he presided repeatedly over “sharp exchanges in Question Period debates that have been dominated by the robo-calls affair.”
Let us think about this for a second. The member for Regina—Qu'Appelle, who was in the only riding association outside of Guelph that put money into Guelph for the robocall scandal that we all know so well, became the Speaker and got to preside over debates. However, trust me, that is just the tip of the iceberg.
It was also revealed, in 2020, that the member for Regina—Qu'Appelle hired his sister while he was serving as Speaker. I could go on with the details of that, but we all know the story. The member for—