Madam Speaker, I will withdraw the name of the individual, but the label is the individual's name and it is called “Grope Gate”.
We then went on to the SNC-Lavalin affair, and we all know what that was about. We had a situation where the Prime Minister was trying to get the attorney general of Canada at the time to break the law so that his buddies with a firm in Canada could continue activities that were probably a little suspect. It was another situation where there was no respect for the institution and no respect that the attorney general had a job to do and could not have done that job if the Prime Minister had had his way. We all know how that ended.
We then went to something called the blackface scandal. Of course, who is it attributed to? There is that name again.
We then got to sole-source contracts. That is not him; that is the Minister of International Trade.
We then got to the WE Charity controversy. That was the same individual and another guy named “Bill no more”. He is no more.
We then have a big one. This takes up the whole page. It is called arrive scam. That one is not even finished yet. That one is still well under way.
Then there is the sister-in-law ethics commissioner. We all know who that was. We then have Chinese government interference. Wikipedia names the Government of China, CSIS, the Liberal Party, the guy again and another member, who is an independent now. Then we see the Hunka scandal. While I cannot say the name again, the last scandal happens to be the Leader of the Opposition's “wacko” comment. Wikipedia calls that a scandal.
When we read all of the scandals that Wikipedia lists, the only one that is attributed to the Conservatives is the comment that our leader made about the Prime Minister, which I do not consider a scandal. I consider it an accurate assessment. That highlights where we are at and why we are in this debate today.
I will leave the scandal-plagued government to figure out its next move. I want to talk a bit about the last nine years in this country and what has happened to our economy and the standard of living.
Much of it is because the government has been totally inept. We have a government led by a leader who is quoted as saying that he has an admiration for the Chinese dictatorship. That in itself should cause a lot of concern. If we look at what has happened over the last nine years in the country, it so much reflects China, Cuba or other dictatorships. This is what we have had running this country.
Canadians cannot wait. Canadians have said loud and clear that they are sick and tired of this guy and it is time for him to go. His members, some of whom are afraid they are not going to win the next election, are starting to rebel. We will see where that goes, but as has been the case when it comes to certain situations, this individual seems pretty set in his ways. I happen to have a bet on it. I will not say which way I have gone, but right now it looks like I am losing.
As the Conservative Party, nothing would make us happier than to run in the next election against the Liberal leader, the guy who is referred to as “little potato”. I did not make that up. That is a fair assessment. We would dearly love to have the opportunity to run against the little potato and go into an election. I am afraid the results would not be pretty fr all the fellows and ladies over there. In fact, I am looking at a couple of their ridings and the polls do not look good. I would be polishing up my résumé, especially if I were the member for Waterloo. It is going to be tough for the Liberal MPs to sell this.
We started off with sunny ways, and Canadians bought into it. Politics changes in cycles and clearly in 2015 Canadians decided they wanted a change. They changed to sunny ways, but it was not sunny for very long before the clouds started to set in.
This particular Liberal government has done more to harm the Alberta economy than any government in this country's history. Even today there are announcements coming out. Look at the most recent immigration announcement, and look at it deeply to see how it is going to impact Alberta negatively.
It is about time the government put its record on the line and called an election to see what Canadians really think. The Liberals seem to feel like pollsters have it all wrong, that Canadians still see sunny ways out there, but I am afraid we are well beyond that.
I would like to wrap up by saying that this particular scandal—