Madam Speaker, my colleague talked about how this is normal procurement and every government does it. Under the Conservatives, we saw procurement to highly paid external consulting companies double. We have now seen it quadruple under the Liberals. This is the new normal: the rush to the trough by Liberal and Conservative insiders.
In this case, for ArriveCAN, we saw current public servants getting contracts, indigenous set-asides going to non-indigenous businesses, fraud, and security permits given to people who were not eligible. These are task authorizations and put Canadian security at risk. We learned of former public servants crossing over to work for these big firms. We learned of Liberal and Conservative former cabinet ministers serving as managing directors of companies like Deloitte. We saw doubling and tripling of commissions. By the time people actually did the job, at times 50% of the money had gone to commissions.
The member talked about normal procurement. If this is going to be normal, this economic leakage and rip-off of Canadian taxpayers, when are the Liberals and Conservatives going to get together and put an end to this absolutely abysmal destruction of the Canadian public service by outsourcing it to these external, for-profit companies? When is it going to end?