Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for really bringing forth and talking about the accountability issue, because I think it is important. Actually, I would like his opinion, because I know I have no time for corruption regardless of the political party or who is in government. We have to do better here.
He mentioned increasing the penalties for conflict of interest, accountability and ethical failures in the House. We ran in the last election, in 2021, on increasing the penalties from the $200-ish fines that exist right now and taking them up to $40,000.
Could he expand on that a little and say why other parties are not advocating for something similar? In his opinion, why are they not demanding that every single one of us who is elected to this chamber be held to account if they are not following conflict of interest and ethics laws?