Rick Perkins

[Privilege, October 3rd, 2024]

Madam Speaker, one of the easiest ways to avoid a conflict is not to appoint chairs to a government agency overseeing a billion dollars, in my view. They had a conflict and were doing business and should not have been appointed. The Prime Minister's Office and the former minister were warned by the organization and they ignored it.

I would ask the member to comment on that since he has sat in these hearings. Does he think that when we appoint an individual who has an admitted conflict and is doing business with an organization, it changes the tone and can result in the kind of cover-up we have now, with Liberal insider dealings and corruption?

[Privilege, October 3rd, 2024]

Madam Speaker, I guess he is new, so I will help by informing him that this is a privilege motion and he has to be relevant to it.

[Privilege, October 3rd, 2024]

Madam Speaker, on a point of order, I am not sure if the member knows where he is, but we are debating a privilege motion on the green slush fund, on SDTC and on the Speaker's ruling about the House's breach regarding the production of documents, not the issue the member noted.

[Privilege, October 3rd, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the Leader of the Opposition has had one more security clearance than that member.

[Privilege, October 3rd, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I thank our newer member of Parliament for his speech. He was recently elected in a by-election and has been very insightful. He has clearly done his research and looked at the documents.

We hear tripe, and it really is tripe, from the Liberal House leader and the Liberal members of Parliament about the RCMP. They say that only the RCMP can ask for documents, but the RCMP is interested in receiving these documents. Why? At the justice committee, Deputy Commissioner Mark Flynn of the RCMP was asked if he would look at the documents if they came from the House of Commons by order, and here is what he said: “I can say that any information that comes to the RCMP will go through the appropriate level of review, using the appropriate resources to do so.” He did not say it would interfere with the investigation.

Would the best way to avoid having Liberal cronies funnel $400 million of taxpayer money to their own companies not be to appoint people to public positions who are not conflicted before they are even on the board?

[Innovation, Science and Industry, October 3rd, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up, time is up and conflict of interest is up at the Liberal green slush fund. The Auditor General found that 82% of the transactions approved by Liberal insiders went to their own companies, totalling almost $400 million. The House demanded that the government turn over the documents to the RCMP, and the Prime Minister is refusing.

How many more millions of misappropriated tax dollars is the Prime Minister hiding by refusing to turn over the documents?

[Privilege, September 27th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, in the really insightful speech from the member for Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes, who has worked very hard on this scandal, he mentioned the Auditor General who took a small sample of the transactions of the insider Liberal board members and found that 82% were corrupted.

The interesting thing is that for a year and a half we have had lots of studies and public hearings on this and yet, none of the main broadcast media, CTV or CBC, has had one story on it. I would like the member to comment about the ability or willingness of the media to do its job, which it does not seem to be doing. Why might it not be doing the job of covering this Liberal scandal and cover-up?

[Privilege, September 27th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, since those were all points of order, I note that a minute and a half was taken off the question and answer period. I would ask that the clock on questions and answers be restored to 10 minutes for this member.

[Privilege, September 27th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, we are doing what responsible parliamentarians do. Any responsible business, when it uncovers corruption in its own organization, turns it over to the police. Why will he not let it be turned over to the police?

[Privilege, September 27th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the Liberal member is part of a government that did not want an investigation into foreign interference. He is a member of a party that refuses to release the 11 names of parliamentarians who have been compromised. He does not believe in that. He is deflecting from the issue of the supremacy of Parliament.

I know Canadians did not give you a majority, and you are sad about that; you will not be getting it next time either. However, a majority of people in the House, representing Canadians, said these documents need to go to the RCMP. Why do you not listen to the people?