Ms. Chris Charlton (Hamilton Mountain, NDP): Mr. Speaker, the parliamentary secretary's list of fantasy investigations cannot hide the fact that he refuses to answer questions about the actual Elections Canada investigation into his party for electoral fraud. Conservatives are the one-stop shop for voter suppression and illegal election financing.
Ms. Chris Charlton (Hamilton Mountain, NDP): They love trying to change the channel, Mr. Speaker, but only the Conservatives are being questioned for co-ordinated voter fraud.
The Conservatives paid RMG and RackNine millions in the last election. The Conservatives, and no other parties, are being forced to show their vote database to Elections Canada.
It is the Conservatives who are trying to throw a 23-year-old under the bus for a scheme affecting dozens of ridings across Canada.
Ms. Chris Charlton (Hamilton Mountain, NDP): Mr. Speaker, I would remind the minister that there is no work stoppage right now, there is no lockout, there is no strike, yet the government is invoking closure on a mechanism that would put an end to a work stoppage that does not exist. It is completely absurd.
Ms. Chris Charlton (Hamilton Mountain, NDP): Mr Speaker, I rise today to speak to Bill C-377, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (requirements for labour organizations).
The bill before us seeks to require trade unions to publicly disclose their financial statements.
Mr Speaker, the reporting requirements contemplated by this bill are completely unnecessary. But, of course, the government knows that.
Ms. Chris Charlton (Hamilton Mountain, NDP): Mr. Speaker, ducking, weaving, and pointing the finger is not the accountability that Canadians deserve. We are not in a schoolyard. These are serious questions with serious consequences. It is election fraud.
A Conservative campaign operative was reportedly questioned by Elections Canada. Why does the government not just come clean by telling the House which Conservatives paid for these calls and where the phone scripts came from? The best they can muster is the Liberals did it too. Seriously?
