I'm concerned, because I'm hearing from my colleagues about this need for expediency, and yet we find out that the minister was meeting back as early as September 2008, long before Parliament was even made aware that the border fund was going to be raided and that this plan to distribute money was being set up with local mayors. So it seems they had a lot of time to get their ducks in a row. Yet we find out that through the local area leadership group, federal civil servants were brought in to discuss criteria and ideas but were then excluded so that the mayor, the hotel manager, and the minister were then left with free rein to decide how these projects, these hockey arenas and all the other baubles and gazebos....
Were you given any of the documentation from the meetings Minister Clement held with his two friends in the Huntsville area?