Mr. Speaker, it is withdrawn.
The NDP is desperate to cover up for the Liberals, whom it has been propping up. All the while, their friends have been lining their pockets. NDP members, like the member from Edmonton who cannot manage to keep her voice down, have done nothing to raise their voice for Canadians who are suffering after nine years of their support for the government, which has seen corruption time after time. The member from Edmonton has done nothing to advocate for the millions of Canadians who are now using the food bank, a third of whom are children.
We hear that the NDP is supposed to fight for the downtrodden and those who need a hand up, but we have seen it turn its back on workers, on Canadians and on the hungry, and the member from Edmonton has led the charge to prop up the government that has the worst record on standing up for vulnerable Canadians. It is absolutely shameful. This is a great example, what we find ourselves in the House talking about today as a result of the member's support for the government. The NDP is allowing for hundreds of millions of dollars to line the pockets of insiders.
What does the government do as soon as it is ordered by the House to produce documents? Of course, we find that the government is turning its back on its obligation to the sacred institution of Parliament, refusing an order to produce the documents. Why is that? Well, of course, the Liberals got caught stacking a board with their friends, like the chair of the SDTC board, a friend of the Prime Minister, Annette Verschuren. What did their friend do when she got put into this place of trust, a place of privilege? She lined her pockets and the pockets of her friends, and we see that there was a finding of guilt by the Ethics Commissioner.
It is like Groundhog Day every time we talk about scandals and corruption with the Liberals. The Liberal Prime Minister is the first in Canadian history to be found guilty twice of having broken Canada's ethics laws. It is unbelievable, but that is the state of the NDP-Liberal government. It is said that a fish rots from the head down, and that is what we have seen with multiple ministers in the NDP-Liberal government who were found to have broken the law.
When it comes to the office of the Ethics Commissioner, the Prime Minister's buddy, now the public safety minister, had been found to have broken the law. However, when given the chance, when the Ethics Commissioner's office was vacated, what did the Liberals do? They appointed his sister-in-law to take over the Ethics Commissioner's office.
Every single time they get the chance to do the right thing, and we can set our watch to it, they do the absolute opposite. There is the international development minister, who was the failed housing minister; the trade minister; and the former finance minister, and the conflicts of interest go on and on.
The Liberals' solution to the economic vandalism they have perpetrated on this country, after nine years, is that they find a buddy of the Prime Minister. It is not a buddy like David Johnston of the Trudeau Foundation, who was the Prime Minister's neighbour and ski buddy and whose reputation the Liberals wanted to use to whitewash their failures to call out, detect and disrupt foreign interference in our democracy, like they did with David Johnston. It is not that kind of friend; it is a friend like Mark “carbon tax” Carney, and we could call him conflict of interest Carney, but it is almost synonymous with everyone who associates themselves with the Liberals. The conflicts of interest just follow.
It was within just days of the Liberals' naming Mark “carbon tax” Carney as the de facto finance minister that the Prime Minister's Office had taken the named finance minister and Deputy Prime Minister and started strategic leaks about how they had lost confidence in her. However, instead of firing her, they just appointed some man who is a friend of the Prime Minister and who shares his ideological bent to tax Canadians just for the crime of trying to feed themself, heat their home and put gas in their car to get to medical appointments and to their jobs.
Mark “carbon tax” Carney has a buddy who is the head of a company called Telesat. Within days of Carney's being named as the new economic adviser to the Prime Minister, his buddy at Telesat gets $2.14 billion, tax dollars. One would say that is enough of a scandal to put an end to the latest conflicted appointment, and one would wonder why the conflicts of interest of Carney are not under the purview of the same rules that designated public office holders have.
They are paying him through the Liberal Party to avoid the necessary disclosure that would have also revealed to Canadians that his company, of which he is the chair, Brookfield Asset Management, is going to benefit substantially from changes to the mortgage rules that the government made a day after the last announcement it made that was conflicted, on Telesat.
The Liberals are going to put more burden on Canadians with their changes to mortgage insurance. They have a terrible supply problem in the housing market, but they did not announce some program to solve supply. No government has ever spent so much to achieve so little as they have on housing. What did they do? They decided to increase demand.
Why on earth would they take measures to increase demand in housing during a housing supply crisis? Of course, the company of the Prime Minister's new economic adviser, Mark “carbon tax” Carney, stands to benefit financially from it. This is within just days of his being appointed. We have to wonder why the Liberals would not bring him under the umbrella of the conflict of interest regime. It is because everyone they bring under it gets found guilty of breaking it.
When we look to have audits in situations like the $60-million arrive scam, let us canvass the government benches on how the Liberals voted on having the Auditor General investigate their scandal to support Liberal insiders' grift to the tune of millions of dollars from Canadians. I am not hearing the heckles now from them about how they all voted in favour of that audit, because they did not. They voted against having the Auditor General investigate. Shame on them.
What did we find out? There was no value for money; they wasted taxpayer dollars on an app that ultimately did not work and wrongly forced 10,000 people under house arrest for weeks. Then the Liberals' buddies, the two yo-yos from GC Strategies operating out of a basement, added no value for Canadians.