Mr. Speaker, we support the motion. We want to get to the bottom of things, and NDP MPs were key in getting to the bottom of the SNC-Lavalin scandal and the WE Charity.
However, my colleague said that we need to get answers for Canadians and he also talked about what is a considerable amount of money, $400 million, tied up with the SDTC scandal. What he did not mention was that the Conservative scandals under the Harper regime were even bigger. I am talking about the $400 million for the ETS scandal and the $1 billion for the G8 scandal.
We remember the misspending that took place at that time. The Phoenix pay scandal was $2.2 billion. With the anti-terrorism funding, the Conservatives simply lost the paper trail. It was $3.1 billion. The Conservatives were much worse, in terms of the massive amounts of corruption and misspending under the Harper regime. The Conservatives misspent a lot more, and we have never had an apology from a single Conservative member. No one has acknowledged the fact that they shut down all the parliamentary inquiries into these spending scandals.
My question is simply this to my colleague: If $400 million is bad, why is the $5.2 billion that Conservatives misspent not so much worse?
Mr. Speaker, we support the motion. We want to get to the bottom of things, and NDP MPs were key in getting to the bottom of the SNC-Lavalin scandal and the WE Charity.
However, my colleague said that we need to get answers for Canadians and he also talked about what is a considerable amount of money, $400 million, tied up with the SDTC scandal. What he did not mention was that the Conservative scandals under the Harper regime were even bigger. I am talking about the $400 million for the ETS scandal and the $1 billion for the G8 scandal.
We remember the misspending that took place at that time. The Phoenix pay scandal was $2.2 billion. With the anti-terrorism funding, the Conservatives simply lost the paper trail. It was $3.1 billion. The Conservatives were much worse, in terms of the massive amounts of corruption and misspending under the Harper regime. The Conservatives misspent a lot more, and we have never had an apology from a single Conservative member. No one has acknowledged the fact that they shut down all the parliamentary inquiries into these spending scandals.
My question is simply this to my colleague: If $400 million is bad, why is the $5.2 billion that Conservatives misspent not so much worse?