Of course, Madam Speaker. I think most Canadians would be, as I am, amazed that a minister of the Crown could even have a company still operating that was getting government contracts.
I know when I signed on as a member of Parliament, I went through a pretty serious vetting process where they asked me about what interests not only I might have but my wife. My wife had a little contract with the federal government that she was just wrapping up. We had to report all that. They said things would be much harder if I was a minister, so to find out what has been going on with the member for Edmonton Centre has been a real eye-opener for me. I could not believe this was happening. It is another thing to add on the layer of the question around indigeneity. Yes, it has been amazing.
If the government would only act on this motion we are debating today, that someone cannot have a government job and do the same work by contract at the same time, then that would all be moot.