Well, Mr. Thibault, I thought it was irresponsible to approve a $1 billion contract 33 days before an election, where you had a good number of members of the board of directors of the council writing to me, communicating that they didn't support the project, that there were major concerns about it. I thought it could wait for 33 days. I was misled and I acted.
Maybe it was your experience in government, sir, where the deputy ministers made the decision. At the end of the day, the Treasury Board, under my presidency, was accountable, was the one authorized to make this decision. We accepted our responsibilities and we did it.
I dare say if that type of scrutiny had taken place over the public purse, we probably wouldn't have had all the corruption under the previous government.