Mr. Speaker, in May of this year the Minister of Transport told Parliament that Transport Canada was “not aware of an ignition switch issue” prior to receiving notice from GM in February 2014.
It turns out this was not true.
We now know that her department was fully aware of these problems in June 2013, eight months before the minister said she was told about the problem.
Did the minister mislead the House and Canadians on this very serious issue? If she did not, how could she possibly not have known?