Mr. Speaker, the member said that “it is our duty to defend and uphold our democratic institutions.” Today there is breaking news from the CBC with regard to the Conservative leadership. I would like to quote from the story. It says, “campaign workers were told by representatives of the government of India to stop supporting Brown, not to sell membership cards for him and not to invite him to certain events.”
There is a strong connection between the corruption within the Conservative Party and its leadership and the current leader. This is a very serious issue, yet we have the leader of the Conservative Party today refusing to get the security clearance, the only leader in the House of Commons who has refused. I have been accusing him for weeks now of hiding something. I believe this is one of the issues that he has been hiding behind.
When the member talks about defending and upholding our democratic institutions, does he not believe that the leader of the official opposition has a responsibility to Canadians to stop hiding, come clean and get the security clearance?