Mr. Speaker, we can see Conservative misinformation in real time, in the exchange between the member and me earlier. I questioned him about CBSA officers being removed under Stephen Harper's government. He said, “No, no, I looked at the public accounts. I have the dollar figure here. I have the number of people.” Admittedly, he should not have given away the years, because he exposed himself, but he said from “2012 to 2017”.
From 2012 until 2015, it was Stephen Harper in government. The member admitted, in his answer, that the jobs were eliminated under Stephen Harper. He is right. He is right about the jobs being eliminated during that five-year period. He is just wrong about who was in government during that time.
Will he now, given the fact that he has given the numbers himself, admit it was Stephen Harper who eliminated those jobs?