Madam Speaker, the Conservatives decided to have a debate on this particular issue, and members will notice that they did not use an opposition day, where a full day could have been allocated to the topic. We would have had a vote on it, and so forth. Rather, they wanted to use a concurrence motion to eat into the government's time.
In doing a very simple Google search, I counted seven Conservative MPs who have investments, directly or indirectly, with Brookfield Asset Management. I ask their ethics critic how many Conservative MPs have investments of that nature. Are there any obligations for them?
Conservatives are trying to score political points, do a character assassination or give some sort of impression that the Prime Minister is offside somehow, and I say shame on that. If they really wanted to be productive, then we should have the committee go through it. There might be some things that come out of the committee that could be positive, but that would be the responsibility of the committee. The Liberals are a minority on that committee.
If the purpose of that committee is being manipulated just so Conservatives can constantly attack the Prime Minister, that is bad use of parliamentary tools and is not doing any service at all for their constituents. At least I have not seen that demonstrated today in the debate brought forward by the first two Conservative members.