Mr. Speaker, my goodness, I do not know what is in the water in the House this morning, but these are very strange and bizarre questions. The reality is that this member was involved with the Harper regime, which cut the funding to the Auditor General, which is unbelievable, and yet no Conservative has ever apologized for cutting the funding for independent officers of Parliament, the Auditor General and the Parliamentary Budgetary Officer.
They are absolutely essential. They are foundation stones for transparency and democracy. The reality is that at no point during the Harper regime, in all of the scandals that I just enumerated when billions of dollars were misspent or could not be found, did Conservatives ever consent to actually getting the information to the public. That is shameful. I wish one Conservative MP would stand up and apologize for it.