Madam Speaker, for a guy whose government presided over more than $400 million being pilfered from Canadian taxpayers, he seems pretty incensed about things unrelated to the subject matter that we have talked about. I will say a couple of things.
First of all, he did not quote any member of Parliament so I am not sure what kind of fantasy fiction he is spinning.
I scrummed with the media today. As a matter of fact, on this very scandal, as far as where it came from, this was initiated by common-sense Conservatives at the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics. Guess what? I sit on that committee. The reason it is here today, I am so delighted to tell the parliamentary secretary, is that I had great help, partnership and collaboration with my Conservative colleagues in bringing this forward.
The second thing: on the cost of dealing with this in the House, the cost of not dealing with it is incredibly dangerous because Canadians cannot afford more of this scandal and fraud to be perpetrated without it being stopped. It ends here. This is the red line. We are not going to let them cross it.