Madam Speaker, the lack of respect for the House of Commons is actually being administered by the Conservative Party of Canada and the leader of the Conservative Party. I am not going to play the game they play of consistently spreading misinformation. The motion should have been voted on, and it should have gone to committee. That is what the Speaker is saying.
I am going to go back to the issue of foreign interference and the terrible rationale that the Conservatives use.
It is interesting, in regard to the leader of the Conservative Party and his dealings with the issue of foreign interference. Here is what iPolitics says, and I love the headline: “[Leader]'s approach to national security is ‘complete nonsense,’ says expert.... Wesley Wark, who has advised Liberal and Conservative governments on national security, said [the] Tory Leader...is ‘playing with Canadians’ by refusing to get a top-level security clearance and receive classified briefings on foreign interference.”
This is a serious issue. Can the member give any indication whatsoever of what it is about the background of the current leader of the Conservative Party that might not allow him to get the security clearance? Is the fear that there is something about his history, his background, that would not allow him to get—