Madam Speaker, I have been in this game for a long time. In fact, I was probably involved in this game before the member for Waterloo was even born, so I know what to do with my cellphone when I am up to speak. I thank her for sharing her concern. I am sure we will have an opportunity to share some concerns during questions and comments.
It is always a pleasure to get up in the House of Commons on behalf of the constituents of Calgary Signal Hill. However, I wish it was on an issue or item that is more relevant to them and what they want us debating. They already know the government is corrupt.
Remember, it was the Speaker who ruled that the government needs to provide the documents, so all we as an opposition have been doing for several days now is supporting the Speaker, who happened to be elected as a Liberal member of Parliament. For Liberals to stand up in the House and say the Conservatives are the ones delaying the business of the House could not be further from the truth. The Conservatives are here to keep the government accountable. An order was issued by the House, the Liberal government refused to heed that order and then the Speaker ruled in favour of the question of privilege. I do not know how much more clear it can be. It is almost a trend of this particular government, which has no respect for institutions.
As I said at the outset, I have been in this game a long time. I served in the Alberta legislature, and I cannot imagine that any member of that legislature, given the almost eight years I served, would put up with the nonsense happening here with the government. It is a lack of respect for the institution and the Chair for the Liberal members to stand here and try to put the blame on the opposition.
We have been elected by Canadians as members of the loyal opposition. Our job is to keep the government honest and look after taxpayers' dollars on their behalf, because we have a government that cannot be trusted. It is unfortunate that we have to continue this debate, but I can assure members that the will of this caucus is to get to the bottom of it. Unless the Liberal government tables the documents as ordered by the Chair, we are going to be here through Christmas if we have to be, so the government will have to come up with these documents.
In preparation for my remarks today, I did a little googling, and Wikipedia has a list of political scandals in Canada. The list is fairly lengthy, but consider that we have been a country for over 150 years, which means we have been governed by the current government for one-fifteenth of the time, and almost half of the political scandals on Wikipedia's list have happened since 2015. Many of them have been enunciated here in speeches by my colleagues, but I will start with “elbowgate”. I can't mention who it is attributed to, but we will guess. He happens to sit in the Prime Minister's chair, or “the big chair” as he called it in answer to our party leader's question one day.
Then we had the cash for access scandal, the Aga Khan scandal and the cultural appropriation scandal. I was not quite sure what that was, but it explains that the Prime Minister went to India and donned some traditional garbs and did some dances. Wikipedia considers that a scandal.
Then there is the next one. I was surprised that it was labelled this way, but it is called “Trudeau Grope Gate”—
