Madam Speaker, it was a crazy speech, just wacky. My first point being, of course, that it was because of NDP MPs that we got to the bottom of the SNC-Lavalin scandal and to the bottom of the SDTC scandal and WE Charity as well. In each case, the NDP played a key role.
However, we do know when authoritarian tendencies took place in this country, and that member was in the House during the dismal nightmare years of the Harper regime, where Parliament was shut down and padlocked by Harper and his cronies so that we could not get to the bottom of any of the scandals. I can mention them because he is well aware of them. The G8 scandal was a billion dollars. The ETS scandal was $400 million. The Phoenix pay scandal was $2.2 billion. I could go on and on. There were the Senate scandals. There was a scandal every single day, and every single day the Harper regime and his cronies in the House of Commons shut down any sort of debate, shut down any sort of parliamentary inquiry and shut down committees. It was a nightmare.
The nightmare ended in 2015 when we finally got rid of the Harper regime and the corruption, the scandals, the cronyism and the refusal to allow Parliament to do its job.
Does the member have any sense of shame for his participation in all of those events?