Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the team.
I would like to reiterate that the Auditor General is really held in very high esteem by Canadians. Whatever the Auditor General says, Canadians listen and regard it as the truth. So I'd like to draw your attention to a statement that was made in the House, to see whether you said, or can recall saying, these things.
In response to a question asked by the member from Yorkton—Melville, the respondent says:
Now the Auditor General has confirmed what the member for Yorkton—Melville has said and what we have said, that while he was raising these concerns, the federal Liberals in high places were conspiring to hide those overruns from Canadians and in contempt of Parliament.
I'd like to know if you ever made a statement to that effect.