Ethics  Mr. Speaker, the unanswered questions are as follows. What was the secret agreement? Will they release the correspondence? When did the PMO tell Mike Duffy not to co-operate with the Deloitte audit and, most of all, why? What real reason did Nigel Wright give the Prime Minister for cutting that $90,000 cheque to Mike Duffy?

Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act  Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I think you will find unanimous consent for the following motion: I move that the House ask the Auditor General to conduct performance audits of the House of Commons administration every three years.

Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act  Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I think if you sought it you would find unanimous consent for the following motion. I move that the Board of Internal Economy begin posting the travel and hospitality expenses of members on a quarterly basis to the Parliament of Canada website in a manner similar to the guidelines used by the government for proactive disclosure of ministerial expenses.

Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act  Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I think you will find unanimous consent for the following motion: I move that the Board of Internal Economy begin to post expense reports organized by member, every quarter, on the Parliament of Canada website, in a form more accessible to the public.

Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act  Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, I think if you sought it, you would find unanimous consent for the following motion. I move that the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs be directed to develop guidelines under which the Auditor General is asked to perform more detailed audits of parliamentary spending and report these guidelines to the House no later than December 10, 2013.

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, confusion abounds, and no one has any idea what is going on with the cheque, the secret fund and the government's conflicting versions. Former Conservative staffer Émilie Potvin was right on the money when she alluded to the government's paranoid mentality. Canadians deserve answers.

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, I will be very clear: if he is innocent, he is in; if he is guilty, he is out. However, nobody on this side is going to cut him a $90,000 cheque to avoid the problem. My question is for the Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, who publicly defended Nigel Wright after his resignation.

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, it has been nearly a month, and the government still has no clear or believable answer on why the Prime Minister's chief of staff cut a $90,000 cheque to a sitting legislator. The government should consider the statement of the member for Edmonton—St. Albert, who recommended a little contrition and humility instead of simple bluster and blunder on this subject.

Points of Order  Mr. Speaker, members in the House have asked many times of the Prime Minister why he is choosing to raise payroll taxes and why he is choosing to spend public funds on accounts. These are questions Canadians have.

Points of Order  Mr. Speaker, it is a shame of mine, but I am not an MP from Calgary. I am the MP for Papineau and neither question was from a constituent. The questions were from Canadians who had questions they wanted the Prime Minister to answer. That is part of our jobs as members of Parliament.

Government Priorities  Mr. Speaker, we have crowd-sourced over 3,000 questions from Canadians across the country for the Prime Minister on economic challenges facing the middle class. I want to ask the Prime Minister a question I received from Dustin in Calgary. His question is specifically about his EI premiums, which are rising by $50 this year, a direct payroll tax increase.

Government Priorities  Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the Prime Minister another question, this one from Monique in Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix. Monique would like to know how the government can justify spending Canadians' money on negative partisan advertising. She does not think that is productive for anyone, except the Conservative Party, and she thinks that there are many other causes that would be worthy of her tax money and that would help Canadians.

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, if the Prime Minister's Office wanted to save the taxpayers $90,000 from Mike Duffy's expenses, it could have docked his Senate pay until it was paid back. The Prime Minister said that his chief of staff thought, ethics rules and criminal law aside, that writing a big cheque was the best plan.

Ethics  If the Prime Minister's Office really wanted to reimburse taxpayers for Mike Duffy's $90,000 in expenses, it could have deducted the money from his pay. The Prime Minister claims that despite the ethics rules and the Criminal Code, his chief of staff thought that the best solution was to write a big cheque.

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, we still have not heard why. Perhaps the real reason is linked to the fact that Nigel Wright was a director, for seven years, of the Conservative Fund, the fundraising arm of the Conservative Party, including in 2008, when Mike Duffy was appointed to the Senate and became active as an important fundraiser.