Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Canadian Heritage is getting lost in studies, which all contradict one another.
Having commissioned a study on the financing of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from Nordicity Group Ltd., the minister, obviously unhappy with their recommendations, commissioned another study, from Omnia Communications this time, to conduct a critical analysis of the work done as part of the first one.
The second study found that the first one was based on concepts so outdated and assumptions so shaky that the results were inevitably invalid.
Perhaps the Minister of Canadian Heritage should have conducted the study himself to read into it whatever he wanted. It is outrageous to spend public funds this way. How much did these contradictory studies cost and how much will the next ones cost?