Mr. Speaker, this is nothing more than a multi-million dollar game that the Conservative Party continues to play at great expense to Canadians.
As opposed to the government listening to the Conservatives, we are listening to the RCMP, the Auditor General of Canada, the former law clerk and other stakeholders who say the tactic the Conservatives are using is wrong. One expert even indicated that it is virtually abusive. If anything, the leader of the Conservative Party, the leader of an opposition party, is virtually in contempt with what is taking place in the House. That should not surprise any of us because he was the parliamentary secretary to Stephen Harper, the only prime minister to ever be held in contempt of Parliament in the Commonwealth.
Does the member opposite not agree that the Conservative leader needs to start putting Canadian interests ahead of his own personal interests and the interests of the Conservative Party? Let us allow the Conservative motion to be voted on.