W.C. Fields was on his deathbed, and he was a known atheist. Just like the minister said he was on top of things, he was a known atheist. Someone walked into the room and found him reading the Bible. They asked him why he was reading the Bible, and he said that he was looking for loopholes. He had a deathbed conversion to the fact that there might actually be something after.
Here's how that compares to Minister Champagne. Minister Champagne is 40 months on the job, with an ADM in every meeting and with a deputy minister who's also about as connected to what's going on in his department as Mr. Knubley, Mr. Bains and everybody else. This is the warning about the water over there, because they all seem to forget things. Mr. Knubley remembered Annette Verschuren's and Mr. Noseworthy's résumés back to grade six, but he couldn't remember any meetings on this, for some reason. By the way, most of them are former employees now. That must have something to do with the green slush fund.
Minister Champagne said that he didn't know anything, just like former minister Bains and just like former deputy minister Knubley—