The Parliamentary Budget Officer was very clear when he told us yesterday that he had trouble getting information from your government. Mr. Chair, how can the government claim that it is transparent when we are seeing nothing but the opposite? A document was submitted to Parliament on February 17. We had to address Parliament, and a request was made. A decision had to be made by the Speaker of the House so that we could receive the pile of documents at yesterday's meeting. But today we're being told that the government is transparent. Mr. Chair, I don't believe it, and Canadians don't believe it either. I think, Mr. Minister, that the government is in a little bubble here, in Ottawa, and that it doesn't know what Canadians are saying, because transparency does not exist in your government.
On March 17th, 2011. See this statement in context.