Mr. Speaker, in April 1998, Groupaction was awarded an initial contract for $550,000. Strangely, Groupaction received a second contract in May 1999 to do the same thing, this time for $575,000. Worse yet, Public Works agreed to pay the entire amount to Groupaction, even without the qualitative analysis called for in the contract.
Will the Minister of Public Works admit that, not only is the 1998 report nowhere to be found, as I think he has admitted, but Groupaction never fulfilled its mandate, even if the company was paid not once but twice for the same contract and the second one was never completed?