Mr. Speaker, under the Liberals, well-connected government elite insiders have been pretending to be indigenous in order to take contracts intended for indigenous people, but until today, we did not know just how high the rot went.
Today, the Liberals' indigenous contracting scandal just got a bit “randier”, with revelations that the company owned by the Liberal minister from Edmonton Centre tried to identify itself as indigenous in order to get government contracts. Recall that when text messages came out about someone named Randy directing the affairs of the company in violation of ethics laws, the minister's partner claimed it was someone else named Randy. He later admitted that was false, but said the references to Randy were the result of autocorrect. In order to help get government contracts, they invented another Randy and pretended he was indigenous.
Here is the bottom line. Indigenous people in Canada have tragically high levels of poverty. This privileged, elite minister's fraudulent company tried to grab contracts that the government promised to indigenous people by pretending to be indigenous. It has never been more clear that the minister and the Liberals are only in it for themselves.