Mr. Speaker, I heard one of my colleagues say they must be. The Liberals do not want to talk about moving any of their agenda items forward. They do not want to talk about the issues facing Canadians day to day. They would rather Parliament be completely focused on this issue than comply with the order and be accountable to Canadians.
Unfortunately, this issue of corruption and scandal within the Liberal government is not new. I mentioned the Winnipeg Lab scandal, but the list goes on. This has become a trend with the government, to the point that many Canadians have almost become numb to these scandals. If we ask Canadians on the street how they feel about the Liberal government scandal, they ask which one, because there are so many to choose from.
I would like to share some of them, and unfortunately, this is a very small subset of the scandals the government has found itself in. It certainly is not an exhaustive list.
We all remember the Aga Khan vacation, when the Prime Minister accepted a family vacation to a private island of the Aga Khan, a wealthy leader who happened to have lobbied the government on several occasions. The Prime Minister was found guilty of ethics violations there.
There was also the cash for access fundraisers, where the Prime Minister held private fundraisers for wealthy donors who could pay for access to him as the Prime Minister and to his senior ministers. These events led to allegations that the donors were effectively buying access to decision-makers.
There is more. The Prime Minister also found himself in hot water when he charged taxpayers $6,000 per night for his hotel room while in England attending the funeral of Queen Elizabeth.
One of the more well-known scandals, the WE Charity scandal, draws a lot of similarities to the SDTC green slush fund scandal, in particular with money being given where a conflict of interest exists. In the WE Charity case, the Ethics Commissioner found that then finance minister Bill Morneau broke the law by violating the Conflict of Interest Act.
Finally, we have the SNC-Lavalin scandal, where the Prime Minister and other senior officials tried to pressure then attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould to intervene in a criminal case against SNC-Lavalin. When she refused, she was kicked out of cabinet and out of caucus. The Prime Minister was found guilty once again by the Ethics Commissioner.
This has become a pattern with the Liberal government, and it has caused a lot of Canadians to become incredibly frustrated or perhaps even jaded with politicians in general, because all they see is scandal after scandal coming from the government.
I want to end my speech with a message to Canadians. This is not how their government should be ran. Their government should not be caught up in scandal after scandal, improperly spending taxpayer dollars and trying to cover it up or trying to give money to well-connected Liberal insiders. That is why the Conservatives are going to keep fighting for Canadians by getting to the bottom of this scandal. Canadians deserve to know what is in the documents the government is hiding, and anyone who broke the law should be prosecuted.
It is clear the government is not worth the cost or the corruption and that only common-sense Conservatives will take action to clean up this mess. Above all, it is time for a carbon tax election so that Canadians can elect a common-sense Conservative government that will axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget, stop the crime and stop the corruption.