Government Business No. 9  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the member's speech. It was just revealed at the finance committee that the Minister of Finance took a free trip from the WE organization last summer. I would note that it is not permissible to do sponsored travel while one is in cabinet. The minister just paid back the expenses for that trip today, on the day he was scheduled to testify before the finance committee.

COVID-19 Pandemic and Other Matters  Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Saskatoon—Grasswood. The website iwanttohelp.org is the platform set up for Canadians to apply for the Canada student service grant. When Canadians apply on iwanttohelp.org, is their information kept on Canadian servers?

COVID-19 Pandemic and Other Matters  Mr. Speaker, I hope that answer will also include whether or not the information is on government servers. With what the government is saying with respect to WE, it either has a deeply flawed decision-making process for billion dollar projects or it routinely allows billion-dollar conflicts of interest to simply slip by.

COVID-19 Pandemic and Other Matters  Mr. Speaker, did the minister ever discuss the WE deal with the Prime Minister?

COVID-19 Pandemic and Other Matters  Mr. Speaker, did the minister discuss this with the finance minister?

COVID-19 Pandemic and Other Matters  Mr. Speaker, I think it is unfortunate that the Liberal government and Liberal politicians seem to be quick to throw hard-working public servants under the bus. I have heard from a number of farmers and certified seed growers in my constituency who are concerned about the prospect of what are called “trailing seed royalties”.

Further COVID-19 Measures Act  Mr. Speaker, when it comes to the decisions made within the party to which he has referred, it was a party decision in which MPs had no involvement. I will leave it to the party to answer those questions. However, he does talk about trust. During the ethics committee last week, the hon. member who spoke before me, the member for Hull—Aylmer, made the comment that democracy was fragile.

Further COVID-19 Measures Act  Mr. Speaker, the member is right in as far as it could have been passed. However, because the Liberals have shut down Parliament and refused to allow Parliament to do its job, it was not. When it comes to playing politics, it is a shame really that the Liberals would play politics with an institution like this, that they would use this very House of Commons, which is the pinnacle of Canadian democracy, as a bargaining chip in political discourse in the country.

Further COVID-19 Measures Act  Mr. Speaker, it is an honour once again to rise in the House and enter into debate. It is good to be back in Parliament, regardless of the time of year. Even though summer is not normally a time Parliament sits, we have important business to do, so it is good to be back. In my 10-minute speech, I hope to cover a whole range of subjects, but I want to bring up something that constituents talk to me on a regular basis about, and that is the deterioration in trust that has taken place between Canadians and their government.

Further COVID-19 Measures Act  Mr. Speaker, the disability tax credit application is quite arduous. I am not sure if the member has had a chance to go through that with some of her constituents, but it is a very heavy bureaucratic process and does take time. I am wondering if she is aware of that process, the challenges that many Canadians have in applying for that credit and the fact that those who are either in the midst of applying or do not qualify are being left behind by aspects of this legislation.

Further COVID-19 Measures Act  Madam Speaker, my colleague touched on a number of very important issues. We have heard rumours in the last number of days, like we did in the last election, about a home equity tax. There is an old adage, and I was a volunteer firefighter for a number of years, that where there is smoke, there is fire.

Further COVID-19 Measures Act  Madam Speaker, it is always interesting to hear the hon. member. I am glad he acknowledged that he does not know all things about all things, so I appreciate his moment of transparency in that regard. I would make a quick note, before my simple question, regarding the rewriting of history.

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, the WE Charity scandal continues to deepen. More troubling details are being revealed daily. With their filibuster in the ethics committee last week, it would seem that the Liberals are hiding something embarrassing. Every minister should be asked about their connection to WE.

Government Business No. 8  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate a couple of the attitudes that the hon. member mentioned in her speech. Those are the need for creativity and the need to be positive. When it comes to the need for creativity, I wish there was more creativity in terms of making sure that Parliament could have sat over the last three months, so that we could have had fulsome and regular debates, including private members' business and whatnot over this past number of months as this country faced an unprecedented crisis.

Government Business No. 8  Madam Chair, your point is well taken and I do apologize that I get impassioned in debate. My point of order is about referencing the attendance of members within the House. It was brought up a number of times during the previous COVID committee—