Leader, La Presse is reporting that the Canada Border Services Agency, or CBSA, gave GC Strategies almost half of the 140 contracts it has won for IT work since 2015. We learned that 46 of those contracts went to GC Strategies without a call for tender. An IT firm that does no actual IT work itself got a quarter of a billion dollars from this Trudeau government, paid for by Canadian taxpayers, who are struggling to buy groceries. The Prime Minister is not worth the cost or the corruption, leader.

Conservatives are asking for the Auditor General to investigate every single contract given to GC Strategies. Does the Trudeau government commit to stop deleting emails and to preserve all documents across every department that awarded contracts to GC Strategies?

The Auditor General is independent of the Government of Canada, and she certainly takes her responsibility seriously. She doesn’t shirk from shining a light on areas where the government has fallen short. Her report is certainly an example of this. One can hardly accuse the Auditor General of sugar‑coating what is a deplorable situation.

I have no information about deletion of emails, and I will not comment any further on that. The government is committed — as I’ve said on many occasions, but I guess you need lots of clips for your social media feeds, so I’ll repeat myself once again: Investigations are under way in the appropriate way by the appropriate instances.

There’s a culture of corruption in the Trudeau government. They simply cannot be trusted to clean it up or even come clean to Canadians with the truth, leader. The Prime Minister interfered in the criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin. He won’t tell Canadians what he knew about Beijing’s interference in our democracy. He has broken our ethics laws twice without any remorse. Isn’t that why $258 million can be wasted so easily, leader?

If he can do what he wants and get away with it, why should anyone else in the government care about the consequences?

This government cares about doing things properly. When things are not done properly, as is clearly the case with the ArriveCAN project, the government is using the appropriate legal and responsible steps to get to the bottom of it.