We ask the minister one question and she answers another; it is always the same. She is unable to carry out her responsibilities. Besides which, everything the Conseil de la souveraineté did, it did before the referendum period.
But in this case, we do not know. And these grants in 1995-96 from the Department of Canadian Heritage to the Council for Canadian Unity, and its branch office Option Canada, represent22 per cent of the total envelope that was supposed to be set aside for organizations representing official language minority communities.
Does the Prime Minister not find it shocking that money set aside for assistance to official language minority communities in Canada was diverted like this to secretly fund the federalist forces in the no camp during the last referendum campaign, because these expenses were never declared? Even the president of the Council for Canadian Unity was unaware of the existence of Option Canada. It is hard to believe.