QUESTION PERIOD — Innovation, Science and Economic Development
Sustainable Development Technology Canada
October 31, 2024
Senator Gold, after nine years of scandal and corruption from the NDP-Liberal government, here we are at a complete standstill in Parliament, making it impossible for anyone to address issues like the doubling of housing costs, Liberal food inflation and the increased crime and chaos on our streets, all because your government’s priority right now is covering up the latest scandal involving Liberal insiders.
Liberal appointees, colleagues, have inappropriately, if not illegally, pocketed $400 million in taxpayer money through the green slush fund, and now the NDP-Liberal government is refusing to turn over relevant documents so Parliament can get to the bottom of this. Meanwhile, Canadians are lining up at food banks in record numbers. They can’t afford to heat their homes, and too many can’t afford a home. While Liberals in Parliament are sitting on their butts, this Prime Minister is trying to cover up his.
Senator Gold, it’s enough. Why won’t your government have the decency to turn over the documents and call an election?
The dysfunction in the other place is exclusively a function of one party’s insistence on doubling down on an inappropriate disclosure of documents in an inappropriate way.
All of the other issues that you raised, managing to shoehorn them all into one question, are simply an example of how it is impossible to properly address some of these issues in a proper way. The government has made it clear what its position is with regard to the documents and how it should appropriately be before a committee, and the rest of it is just politics on your part.
Senator Gold, it isn’t the Conservatives saying, “Give it up.” Your own NDP-Liberal-elected Speaker in the House of Commons has ordered your government to turn the documents over. But, I suggest, what are you going to do, sue him again? You continue to refuse to abide by the rules of Parliament and turn over the documents. And you have no respect for the people who have sent those parliamentarians to power.
So can Justin Trudeau do the right thing — turn over the documents, call an election so we can get to the bottom of this?
Again, Senator Housakos, you are — and I’m going to be charitable here — selectively quoting the facts from the Speaker’s ruling, and you are certainly misrepresenting the respect this government has for the proper process.
