Mr. Speaker, the minister said she took no action on the problems in her department because how could anyone know, the audit was incomplete, how could anyone taken any action?
The spin doctors in her own department in a document entitled “Communications Approach” knew about it. They said that there will be administrative shortcomings that will be revealed and they had better be up for that. And in what must be the best understatement of the year, they said that the report will indicate that the administration of grants and contributions in her department could do with improvement.
If the communications department knew about it in August, how can the minister say that she cannot do anything until the audit is complete?