Ethics  When will the government bring in an ethics package and one that includes an independent ethics commissioner for the Prime Minister and his cabinet?

Government Contracts  Does this not show once again why the Prime Minister and cabinet need to be subject to an independent ethics commissioner?

Ethics  Will the Prime Minister pledge to withdraw this proposal and propose instead an independent ethics commissioner for all parliamentarians?

Resumption of debate on Address in Reply  On ethics in the 1993 red book, we will never forget the Liberal Party promise for an independent ethics commissioner who would report to Parliament. Obviously in 1994 it broke that Parliament. The appointee we have today apparently spends his time writing question period responses for the Prime Minister to the numerous times his ethical behaviour comes into question.

Ethics Commissioner  Mr. Speaker, we did not ask for a committee, we asked for action. Two professors from the University of Ottawa have studied this government and found a paranoid style of neurosis, a culture of secrecy and a climate of distrust. The suspicions that the Prime Minister has had a hand in the firing of senior journalists only contributes to this.

Ethics  Having failed to establish in nine years clear ethical standards for his cabinet, for himself and for his government, will he now act and appoint a fully independent ethics commissioner?