Rick Perkins

[Privilege, October 22nd, 2024]

Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order.

We are debating the subamendment to the privilege motion on the government's refusal to release the documents on the corrupt Liberals, which has nothing to do with the subject of that question.

[Innovation, Science and Industry, October 22nd, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister could release the 11 names, and he could also release the documents uncensored so Canadians could learn the truth about the $400-million, Liberal, green slush fund cover-up.

Canadians, I am sure, will also be shocked to learn that, on the Prime Minister's order, more than 10,000 pages were censored to cover up the most important information about the Prime Minister's hand-picked Liberal appointees to the green slush fund. The government does not exist to protect corrupt Liberals from criminal investigation.

Will the Prime Minister stop the cover-up of Liberal corruption and hand the uncensored documents over now?

[Innovation, Science and Industry, October 22nd, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. What else is up? Liberal cover-ups are up. The Speaker ruled that the NDP-Liberals had violated the order to turn over the green slush fund's $400-million scandal documents for criminal investigation. The Liberal obstruction of justice continues with 19 government departments censoring documents and two agencies refusing to turn documents over.

Will the Prime Minister end the Liberal corruption cover-up and turn the uncensored documents over now?

[Innovation, Science and Industry, October 10th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the Liberals blacked out so much in the documents that the Prime Minister's Office ran out of toner for the copiers. Apparently it is okay to turn blacked out documents that hide Liberal corruption over to the RCMP; that is not a constitutional issue. However, it is a constitutional issue to remove the redactions and expose the Liberal corruption. I have news for the minister: The Constitution does not exist to protect Liberals from criminal investigation.

Will the Liberals just stop their cover-up and their cover-up addiction and hand the unedited documents over to the RCMP?

[Innovation, Science and Industry, October 10th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, there is so much Liberal corruption that Liberals are covering up their cover-up of the $400 million of corruption in the Liberal green slush fund. The Speaker ruled that the NDP-Liberals violated the House order to turn the green slush fund documents over to the RCMP's criminal investigation. Obstruction of justice is the Liberals' middle name. They refused to turn over documents in the SNC scandal, in the WE Charity scandal, in the Winnipeg lab scandal and in the foreign interference scandal.

They should just end the corruption cover-up and turn the documents over to the RCMP. How bad is it?

[Privilege, October 8th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, the hon. member for North Okanagan—Shuswap gave an insightful speech. As he was a businessman before he entered this place, he has great insight into what happens when there are issues with an employee who absconds with funds.

The Auditor General only did a selective audit of 226 of 420 transactions in the audit period, just half the sample, and found 82% were conflicted. Do you think the government is refusing to release these documents because it does not want the rest of the documents out there because of what they will reveal about Liberal corruption?

[Privilege, October 8th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, we are debating the production of documents ordered by the Speaker, right now, and the obstruction of the government in providing those. I did not hear any of that referenced in that member's question, so I would ask for relevance.

[Privilege, October 8th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, I am going to make a brief comment on the Liberal member for Winnipeg North's comment earlier, where he finally acknowledged, in hindsight, that Annette Verschuren should not have been appointed chair of the Liberal green slush fund. I will give that member in the House another newsflash. The former Liberal minister Bains was told three times by the CEO of the Liberal green slush fund not to hire her because of her conflict of interest. The former PMO staffer who worked in communications in the green slush fund told the former minister's office and the PMO not to hire her because of her conflict of interest. She is the only chair in the history of the green slush fund to have a conflict.

Does the House know what former minister Bains said back to the CEO? He said to not worry, that he would manage the conflict. I guess they managed the conflict well, as they managed $400 million out of taxpayer money. I would like the member to comment about the claim or the acknowledgement that they made the wrong choice yet again.

[Privilege, October 8th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, further on that, here is the situation that happened. The radical Minister of Environment's boss was the founder of Cycle Capital before he was elected. That person sat on the board, and her company, over its duration, received a quarter of a billion dollars, or 25% of all the money in the Liberal green slush fund. Coincidentally, that board member, who owned Cycle Capital, was shifted to the Infrastructure Bank board, and guess what the first investment was she approved as a board member at the Infrastructure Bank. It was $170 million for the company owned by the chair of the Liberal green slush fund, Annette Verschuren.

Does the member think there is a cozy little conflict of interest, a little conspiracy of conflict of interest, between these directors when 82% of the transactions the board approved are conflicted and when one goes to another board and then featherbeds the board she just left?

[Privilege, October 8th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, I will go further on the issue of the radical Minister of Environment, who was a paid lobbyist for 10 years for Cycle Capital when he received his shares. He was elected in 2019, and the year before that, he lobbied the PMO and the industry department 25 times for Cycle Capital, some of that while he was the nominated candidate for the Liberal Party. Then in 2020, while he was a member of cabinet, cabinet approved another $750 million for the Liberal green slush fund. The claim that there were not Liberal insiders, which the hon. member on the Liberal side makes, is false.

I would like the member to comment specifically on the issue that for some mistaken reason, the Liberals think the only way a police investigation can happen is for the police to ask for documents. If someone who operates a business finds that an employee has committed a malfeasance and the Government of Canada owns the business, is it not their obligation to turn those documents over to the police? They do not have to wait for the police to discover it, do they?