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Standing Committee on Public Accounts April 13th, 2005
Mr. Speaker, the minister has played back the wrong stock answer. What I am referring to is this week's events in the Standing Committee on Public Accounts.
How can the Prime Minister explain that the people working for him, his henchmen, refused to appear voluntarily before the public accounts committee and needed to be subpoenaed?
Standing Committee on Public Accounts April 13th, 2005
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister proclaims to all and sundry his desire to get to the bottom of the sponsorship scandal and the awarding of contracts to friends of the regime.
How can the Prime Minister, with this claim of transparency and a desire to get to the bottom of things, explain that the Liberals on the Standing Committee on Public Accounts voted against the motion to hear witnesses in connection with the behaviour of the Minister of Finance and of Earnscliffe?
Sponsorship Program April 12th, 2005
Can the Prime Minister confirm, from his seat, that the Minister of Transport never approached his ministers or opposition members to arrange meetings for his clients, which clearly constitutes lobbying?
Sponsorship Program April 12th, 2005
Mr. Speaker, during Alain Renaud's testimony, Justice Gomery reminded him that by acting as a lobbyist without being registered, he broke the law. In addition to being convicted of this, he could be fined $25,000.
When he appointed the Minister of Transport, did the Prime Minister ask his lieutenant if he had acted as a lobbyist for, among others, Onex, Imperial Tobacco, Loblaws, the Reichmann brothers of Olympia and York in connection with developing the Bickerdike pier, and for the Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association?
Sponsorship Program April 11th, 2005
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is not answering any of the accusations from all sides. By not answering, he is not denying anything. Why remain silent?
If all we are learning from the Gomery commission is untrue, what is stopping the Prime Minister from standing up and saying so?
Sponsorship Program April 11th, 2005
Mr. Speaker, Gagliano, Corbeil, Renaud, Morselli, Corriveau, Chrétien, Bard, Pelletier, Bisson, Gosselin, Welch, Wiseman, Béliveau— Will the Prime Minister admit that the theory of a parallel group put forward by the ineffable Minister of Transport no longer holds water and that the sponsorship scandal was set up by the higher ups in the Liberal Party, themselves?
Sponsorship Program April 7th, 2005
A nice attempt at diversion, Mr. Speaker.
In addition to the cash payments, there were the phony invoices. For example, again according to the testimony given by Jean Brault, Jacques Corriveau, now well know as a Liberal bagman, allegedly billed more than half a million dollars to Groupaction on phony invoices. More dirty money.
When will the Prime Minister be asking the Liberal Party of Canada to reimburse all of the dirty money the Liberals obtained?
Sponsorship Program April 7th, 2005
Mr. Speaker, in 1997, Jean Brault agreed to pay $50,000 in cash to the Liberal Party of Canada. In 2001, he agreed to another $50,000. He even earned the thanks of Benoit Corbeil, then on the executive of the Quebec wing of the Liberal Party of Canada.
When will the Prime Minister require the Liberal Party of Canada to pay back all the dirty money obtained by the Liberals?
Member for Outremont April 7th, 2005
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's political lieutenant surprised us with his statement that there was an old guard within the Liberal Party and that the party could be threatened by a parallel group.
The member for Outremont is well placed to know the individuals he refers to as the “old guard”, because on November 28, 1999, he had a sumptuous meal with Jean Carle, Éric Lafleur's former boss, who was in Shawinigate up to his neck, Marc Lefrançois of VIA Rail and André Ouellet of Canada Post, two former heads of crown corporations involved in the sponsorship scandal.
And where was this sumptuous meal, accompanied by numerous fine wines, held? At the secondary residence of Jean Lafleur of Lafleur Communication!
With friends like that, the political lieutenant for Quebec doubtless has a lot to teach us about the people he is calling the old guard.
Sponsorship Program April 5th, 2005
Mr. Speaker, they must not wait for the end of the Gomery inquiry to put the dirty money in trust; it must be done now.
Since the names of some of the people involved are already known, and some of the money involved has been identified, and we know that the gangrene has spread to the highest levels of the Liberal Party, how can the government pretend to be a victim of sponsorships, when it refuses to take the dirty money out of its coffers?