Madam Speaker, over the nine years we have had the current government, it has become quite clear that the government has absolute, complete contempt for the taxpayers in this country.
We can go through dozens of examples in which it has taken advantage of and completely wasted hard-earned taxpayer money. SDTC is an example of that. It had a board already pre-selected early on; surprise, it was full of Liberal insiders. If that does not raise alarm bells, then people are asleep over there. Obviously, they have been, as indicated by the 186 conflicts of interest that the minister did not even recognize with their own board members and their own companies that did not belong to any sustainable fund, fund priorities or goals of this fund. This reeks and smells of criminality to me.
I would hope that the government, as much as it is trying to protect itself from this and from the embarrassment, will see that the Canadian public thinks it is complicit in this because of the fact that it is stonewalling the release of documents. If the government is actually not complicit, then it should turn over the unredacted documents and try to restore some of the Canadian public's faith in the government. That is going to be tough to do.