Mr. Speaker, we support the motion. We want to get to the bottom of things, and NDP MPs were key in getting to the bottom of the SNC-Lavalin scandal and the WE Charity.
However, my colleague said that we need to get answers for Canadians and he also talked about what is a considerable amount of money, $400 million, tied up with the SDTC scandal. What he did not mention was that the Conservative scandals under the Harper regime were even bigger. I am talking about the $400 million for the ETS scandal and the $1 billion for the G8 scandal.
We remember the misspending that took place at that time. The Phoenix pay scandal was $2.2 billion. With the anti-terrorism funding, the Conservatives simply lost the paper trail. It was $3.1 billion. The Conservatives were much worse, in terms of the massive amounts of corruption and misspending under the Harper regime. The Conservatives misspent a lot more, and we have never had an apology from a single Conservative member. No one has acknowledged the fact that they shut down all the parliamentary inquiries into these spending scandals.
My question is simply this to my colleague: If $400 million is bad, why is the $5.2 billion that Conservatives misspent not so much worse?