It's part of a pattern of not being forthcoming. It's part of a pattern of a minister who is changing his story as new details emerge.
Now that we have these additional text messages, evidence that the minister was not forthcoming, they may provide further evidence that the minister was involved in fraud. It will be interesting to see how his story changes when he, hopefully, comes before this committee as soon as possible.
We need to hear from this minister. He shouldn't be a minister. He should have been fired long ago as a minister. He has no place sitting in the cabinet, given his record of, frankly, not being forthcoming and being implicated in this shady business that is riddled by allegations of fraud. It's not just allegations of fraud. I'll emphasize again that there is $7.8 million in judgments by Alberta courts against his company, the company that he had a 50% interest in, stemming from lawsuits from the time he was a partner in the business.
Mr. Chair, it's important that we pass Mr. Barrett's motion and haul Minister Boissonnault back to this committee.