Madam Speaker, it was a really interesting time when I first started paying attention to politics. It was right around the time of the Liberal sponsorship scandal, when there was cash from Liberal coffers being put into envelopes. The Liberals were literally stuffing envelopes with cash. There was so much money and that actually brought down Paul Martin's government. If the parliamentary secretary is going to go into the issue of scandals, he really has to be careful, because at least Paul Martin did the right thing. Eventually the New Democrats supported the Conservatives in bringing down that government because they realized their job was to keep accountability for Canadians. The costly coalition of the NDP-Liberals has literally sprinkled a little bit of GST vacation for a couple months on a few products, just to buy back support for the failed marriage of the NDP-Liberals.
In the House of Commons on November 25th, 2024. See this statement in context.