I have full confidence in our interpretation that they'll be able to provide it in both official languages for members as I present it. It's quite short.
Let's just be clear: It's a billion dollars. It's taxpayer money. We have an Ethics Commissioner investigation. We have the Auditor General investigating. The only way to get government attention is through whistle-blower reports to the media. We have leaked audio recordings of the ADM, the deputy minister, who is laying out the seriousness with which the bureaucracy took this issue. Then, when it did land on the minister's desk, it suddenly became much less of a problem. They suddenly didn't believe the whistle-blower. They suddenly did have confidence in the board and the executive.
When given the opportunity, members of the coalition took every step they could to block an invitation for the whistle-blower to appear before December 1.
I move that the committee report to the House that the NDP-Liberal coalition has prevented a whistle-blower from testifying on the $1-billion green slush fund scandal.