Going back to the timelines again—because Mr. Moore was so good to bring forward the letter from Mr. Hunter of August 2006, where he certainly was raising questions about this project—Mr. Baird has called the project a boondoggle.
On October 3, the Canadian Public Procurement Council announced its winners for procurement projects across Canada, and the Ottawa light rail project was announced as the winner. On that very same day, John Baird was putting up the red light because he had serious concerns about this so-called boondoggle.
How could this project have won a national award for procurements if it was such an outrageous boondoggle necessitating the personal intervention of a minister in the middle of a municipal election?