Mr. Speaker, when I look at the issue we are debating today and reflect on it a bit, I would suggest that the Conservative Party needs to go back and look at the only prime minister to date to have been held in contempt of Parliament, who is Stephen Harper. Guess who the parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister was at the time. It was none other than the leader of the Conservative Party today, the great defender of that contempt of Parliament.
Now the leader of the Conservative Party feels that he does not need to get a security clearance so he can be informed on foreign international interference, a concern Canadians have. I am looking to members opposite, any Conservative, to stand in their place and tell us why their leader will not get a security clearance so he can be informed like every other leader of the House. What is he hiding? What is in his past that Conservatives are not sharing with Canadians?