Madam Speaker, carbon tax Carney and the heat pump hustle have come to town. We have learned about the lobbying efforts that carbon tax Carney has been undertaking to enrich himself, using his access as a special adviser to the government in the U.K.
What is interesting are the similarities to what happened after carbon tax Carney was named the de facto finance minister by the Prime Minister. When the Prime Minister lost confidence in his finance minister and brought in Carney, we saw the exact same kind of behaviour that we have seen from carbon tax Carney in the U.K. within hours of his being appointed to the role. The Prime Minister is shielding him from Canada's conflict of interest laws, notably, the same laws the Prime Minister was found guilty of breaking twice. The Prime Minister broke the law, twice, just like the public safety minister broke the law, just like the trade minister broke the law.
The Prime Minister is shielding Mark Carney from that law because, within hours of having been named to that position, what did he do? He thought he would start by doing what Liberals do, which is to help out their buddies, and gave a $2.14-billion loan to his friend who runs Telesat. The Liberals got really upset when I talked about how there are market-based solutions that could be done much more cheaply than what they were proposing to do, but it was not about solving high-speed Internet; it was about enriching their friends.
What else did Mark Carney do in his first week on the job? He tried to get his hands on $10 billion of pension money in a scheme for Brookfield, the company that he is chair of. In that same first week, what did carbon tax Carney also do? He decided he would let the Prime Minister know he needs to change mortgage rules so we can have longer and larger insured mortgages. Why would carbon tax Carney want to do that? Of course, it is because Brookfield is the second-largest private mortgage insurer in the country. This is what it does. It helps out Liberal insiders, all while Canadians struggle just to get by.
What is the upside for Canadians with the appointment of a de facto finance minister outside the bounds of the obligations that public office holders have, the ethical rules that the Liberals cannot seem to stay on the right side of? We know Carney is looking to succeed the Prime Minister, and obviously, the Liberal Prime Minister wants to displace the finance minister as a contender for that job.
When we boil it all away, we have another Liberal elite who wants to help his friends and Liberal insiders while Canadians are lined up at food banks in record numbers. Two million Canadians are using food banks every month and a third of those food bank users are children. According to Statistics Canada, 25% of Canadians do not know where their next meal is going to come from. That is the legacy of the Liberals who are so determined to help out their friends.
I am sure I will get a non sequitur answer from the parliamentary secretary, who will talk about anything other than the Liberals' failure to represent what Canadians need, which is an accountable government and an institution they can trust.