It was more than 200.
Mr. Speaker, Conservatives have risen 213 times, not splitting their time with anybody and consuming the entire 30-minute period. This is because Conservatives are not interested in sending this to PROC, where their own motion calls for it to go. They are interested in preventing the House from doing any work. Until this point, it would have been work on meaningful and important legislation that has a genuine impact on Canadians. Now, we need to deal with a really serious issue that this country is facing, but Conservatives are preventing us from talking about it. That issue is foreign interference.
In a question I asked just moments ago, and I am glad that the member tried to answer it, I asked the member for Battle River—Crowfoot about the serious issue we could be debating right now instead of this: foreign interference and the member for Calgary Nose Hill. I said that there are serious allegations by five people from the campaign that the member for Calgary Nose Hill co-chaired for Patrick Brown. They said she was contacted by Indian diplomats and pressured not to continue supporting Patrick Brown.
What did the member for Battle River—Crowfoot say in response to my question? He said the Leader of the Opposition won handily. I bet he did, especially with a bit of help, but that is not the question. Nor is the question whether the member for Calgary Nose Hill was coerced or ultimately made a decision based on the conversations that were had with her. The question is this: Did any foreign diplomat or foreign individual say anything to the member for Calgary Nose Hill? If they did, and if they were trying to influence the outcome of the campaign she was involved in, then that is considered foreign interference.
It does not matter who won. It does not matter whether she was influenced by it. What matters is whether the interference took place. Conservatives will try to cloud this and say that the member for Carleton won handily anyway; he took all of Alberta, and there is absolutely no issue. The member for Calgary Nose Hill will say that there was nobody and that she is a seasoned politician who knows how to handle herself. We would not know that by the way she ran away from the CBC yesterday. However, that is not the issue. The issue is whether she was contacted and somebody tried to influence her. That is foreign interference. Canadians have a right to know if she was approached. We have a right to know who those actors are so that we can properly deal with them and they do not continue that behaviour. That is in the public interest. That is in Canada's interest.
However, instead, everybody lines up behind the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Carleton, and recites his slogans ad nauseam.