Mr. Speaker, we see clearly how, across the board, the government fails to take responsibility for its failures. When things go wrong, it is always somebody else who is responsible. It is always somebody else's fault. We could talk, for example, about inflation, about grocery prices, about how everything is more expensive under the government, especially so many household essentials that people rely on to feed their families.
The Liberals' response to it is not to acknowledge at all the role that their policies have played in this, not to acknowledge the fact that the reason we have rampant inflation in this country is because the government has spent massively beyond its means and that it has driven up the cost of goods. It is the inflation tax that was a policy choice of the government. That is what is driving up prices. Now Liberals want to present themselves as there to solve a problem that they themselves have created, with absolutely no recognition of the role that they have played fundamentally in causing that problem.
There are the housing challenges. The parliamentary secretary just spoke about how the government spent millions here, thousands over here and they are doing all these things for housing. How is it going? What are the results? We are building fewer homes today than our country did in the 1970s. We are way behind in terms of meeting these needs, and this is because of policies that have been implemented by the government.
We had an incident discussed in question period today, where, unbelievably, the government allowed a Nazi to be in the gallery during a speech given by the President of Ukraine. The government's response to this event was that it is not responsible. It found its fall guy. It had nothing to do with it, when, in reality, we know that it is the responsibility of the government to vet those who are going to be in the gallery for an important event like that. It is responsible for the vetting. It knows this, this is how the process works, and it is denying responsibility. Whether it is in this incredibly embarrassing and wrong incident that happened at the end of last week or whether it is in the approach of the government to policy in general, we see a complete unwillingness by the government to take responsibility.
I asked a question earlier on the issue of the Trudeau Foundation. This is another instance where we see the government's failure to take responsibility. The question I asked at the time was about the fact that the government claimed the Prime Minister has had no ongoing involvement in or interaction with the Trudeau Foundation, and yet a meeting took place in the Prime Minister's Office between deputy ministers and the leadership of the Trudeau Foundation. It boggles the mind that the Prime Minister would try to pass off the fact that, on one hand, he would say he had no involvement whatsoever in this foundation that received very problematic donations and, on the other hand, this meeting would take place in the Prime Minister's own office.
The response we got at the time from the government House leader to these questions about how this happened is that it was just a building. It just happened to be that the Prime Minister's Office was the most convenient location to have it. I think there was a witness at the public accounts committee formerly with the Trudeau Foundation who said the Prime Minister's Office was just a convenient downtown location. Anyone in Ottawa who wants to hold a birthday party needs to know that the Prime Minister's Office is available. It is just a convenient downtown location. That is ridiculous. It is not a convenient downtown location that just anyone can book. It is a relatively small building that is the Prime Minister's Office. It is called the Prime Minister's Office.
Why do the Liberals not stop passing off the blame and start taking responsibility for their numerous failures?