Mr. Speaker, it is the government that cannot get its story straight.
I find it very hard to believe that the minister's department was in the process of developing a department-wide action plan in August to deal with the release of internal audit results and that the minister knew nothing about it.
Again this communications plan is very extensive. It talks about release strategies and the need to equip the minister with questions and answers, question period cards and media lines.
How can the minister expect us to believe that she did not know anything about the internal audit until November 17, 1999?