Hon. Donald Neil Plett (Leader of the Opposition): Leader, my next question concerns the cover-up released by the Prime Minister’s made-up Independent Special Rapporteur on Foreign Interference. The fix was in from the start, and we could all see it happening. The Trudeau government will do all it can to never allow a public inquiry into Beijing’s meddling in our elections.

In his report and remarks to the media, the Special Rapporteur blamed the media and the opposition. He said whistle-blowers at the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service, or CSIS, were motivated by malice. He looked at only some of the leaks, and the words “Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation” do not appear in his report. All of this is taken straight from Prime Minister Trudeau’s playbook. He could have written the report himself. He needn’t have bothered with the Special Rapporteur.

Leader, why should the made-up Special Rapporteur and this cover-up carry more weight than the majority of the members of Parliament who voted for a public inquiry?