Your staff recommended that you approve it. The $200 million funding envelope had been approved; the City of Ottawa had begun negotiating contracts. What I am struggling to understand, Minister, is why you personally decided not to release the $200 million when officials from various departments had recommended that Treasury Board approve it? Do you not think that this was an unfortunate decision and one that could be viewed as interference?
On April 1st, 2008. See this statement in context.