Madam Speaker, the current trademark of the Liberal government is to set up structures and systems that are completely independent of Parliament or the government, while hiring 109,000 new public servants and creating a megastructure of employees to manage government business. There are two things happening. On the one hand, there are external structures and external companies that are paid $20 billion a year to manage government affairs. They like to call it strategic advice. On the other hand, the civil service is being increased by 40%. There is a lack of coherence there.
What does that tell us about this government? It tells us that it has no confidence in the institution and its government team. At the same time, it is expanding it dramatically, while still shipping business to outside companies. No one really knows how this works, and no one really knows what is going on. This lack of transparency means that, once again, trust is broken.