And this is after the sponsorship scandal, if I can say that, when the Minister of Public Works was making all kinds of protestations that now we're going to live by the rules. Now we find that the rules were not being lived by, because when something came along such that a politician wanted to ensure that friends, or whoever the landlord was, continued to enjoy a government lease, he made it happen, and it cost the taxpayer $4.5 million.
This, Mr. Marshall, is not excusable. The rules are there. We went through the sponsorship scandal about how the politicians became involved in the administration of programs in the Department of Public Works—you know all about it—and here we have the same again. I don't like it, and I want to have the assurance it will stop. Can I have that assurance?