Madam Speaker, we have yet another day of a full-on attack on the independence of Canadian media.
We saw the Conservative leader attack Global News and The Canadian Press. We saw him go after the Toronto Star. We saw the vicious attack on CTV and, of course, the CBC. All this is happening while questions are raised about why the member cannot get security clearance.
There is an article from October 23, this past week, in The Globe and Mail. It refers to the member for Wellington—Halton Hills explaining that “security clearances involve a rigorous process that includes...checks on family members, credit and criminal checks and...questions about one's sexual partners or whether they ever used drugs.” That is not a reason that a man can hide from getting a security clearance: so that we do not find out whether his family has been involved in criminal activities.
The member for Wellington—Halton Hills goes on to say that the Prime Minister should reach out and just tell the member from Stornoway, so he does not have to expose himself. Simply, what are the Conservatives so afraid of exposing in the member for Stornoway's background?