Mr. Speaker, it is the same old refrain with the Conservatives. According to them, they are good fiscal stewards and transparent people. I think that they are forgetting some of what happened in the past, but I will be very pleased to remind them of it today.
When the Conservatives were in office under the Harper regime, they, too, had to deal with a question of privilege. Do members know how long that lasted? It was not just three weeks. Parliament was paralyzed for five months because the Harper government refused to hand over documents on the treatment of Afghan detainees. In the end, the matter was sent to committee. There was an agreement. They managed to cover up some of the information here and there. Today, we are once again hearing them trot out the Conservative rhetoric about transparency and sound management of public funds.
I would remind my colleague from Chilliwack—Hope that, when Tony Clement was a minister, he funnelled $50 million to his own riding. Does my colleague think that is good governance? Does he think that shows respect for our institutions and democracy? I would like my colleague to explain to me today how Quebeckers can trust the Conservative Party, which hopes to govern, when it has such a disastrous track record.