You have to sympathize with our committee. We've had a very sick picture painted for us, you know, and we represent the Canadian taxpayer. We're trying to defend the Canadian taxpayer's purse.
In the last few weeks as we've been investigating this particular scandal, the renovations of our Parliament Buildings, we've unearthed this unsavoury underworld of politics, construction, and corruption, all meeting up, and your name is right in the middle of it, right at the heart of it. That little cabal of Conservative organizers in Montreal seemed to be the genesis of a lot of corruption that has cost the Canadian taxpayers a lot of money.