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This is what was going on at a time when the department should have been focused on CEBA and making sure there were proper accountability measures in place so we weren't seeing these sole-source contracts to Accenture—hundreds of millions of dollars to an entity that did not do loans. That's what we heard last week from EDC. They do not do loans. It did about 300 loans internationally, but they are focused on export development. They are not a lending institution.
To go a step further on the CEBA side of things, it's also interesting that the actual loans were delivered by the financial institutions—banks, credit unions and those entities. The money was going to Accenture for delivering the loans, which makes it even more appalling that this was allowed to be undertaken. Obviously, the Auditor General's report clarified that pretty clearly.
I will make a few more points to wrap up this particular thought on Bill Morneau.
This was obviously something that took up a lot of time at the Department of Finance and for the finance minister himself. Because of what happened, the minister had to resign. The former minister of finance was forced out of his job because of the WE organization scandal and the damning ethics report on this matter. As the Ethics Commissioner clearly determined, he participated in discussions on this matter when he had a pecuniary interest and a clear connection to a close family member involved with this organization. The way this all went down, I think, is absolutely appalling. The Liberals at the time were more concerned about giving nearly a billion dollars to their friends at the WE organization than focusing on the administration of this loan program.
What is interesting—I know the Liberals are laughing, since I guess they don't find fraud that interesting, or they find it to be a laughing matter—is the fact that there were at least 17 cases of fraud.
Chair, I think the translation may not be working. The Liberals don't seem to be hearing what I say.