Mr. Fortier, the government did business with a Montreal company, LM Sauvé, which had submitted a bid $2 million lower than that of any other bidder. After the fact, we learned that that business had brought itself up to standard by relying on the Hells Angels. How is it that no one in your department was able to detect that? You were minister at the time. I remember that, on numerous occasions, you gave this committee guarantees that all security measures had been taken. However, we learned after the fact that LM Sauvé was doing business with the Hells Angels and subsequently that LM Sauvé was not solvent.
Where were you, Mr. Fortier, when you should have been occupying the role of minister responsible for Canadian and Quebec funds? As minister of Public Works and Government Services, you didn't see all that. What happened?