Mr. Speaker, here is the minister's story. She said that on August 9 she had a briefing from her officials on the hottest issues but that somehow they forgot to remind her of the hottest issue of all, the internal audit. By October 20 everyone in the department, from the mailroom clerk on up, knew about the internal audit except for the minister who, like a mushroom, was kept in the dark.
I know this is all very painful for the minister but I wonder if she could tell us what her bureaucrats told her to say about why she was out of the loop for those three disastrous months.