Mr. Speaker, it being Thursday, it is time for the Thursday question. I note that the calendar is just about to change over to November. That means the government has kept Parliament paralyzed through the latter half of September and all of October, and now tomorrow will be the third month it would rather tie up the business of the House with a privilege motion on the refusal to hand over evidence to the RCMP in its $400-million corruption scandal.
The government has had a lot of time to go through hard drives and file folders, to go through all the documents that are surrounding the sordid affair where Liberal-friendly board members funnelled taxpayers' dollars into their own companies. I hear from constituents every day who want to know who got rich, who knew it was happening and what the government is doing to get their money back. It all starts with the RCMP's being able to do its job.
I would like to ask someone from the government side what the business of the House might be, should the government finally comply with the lawful production order and let Parliament get back to work.