Mr. Speaker, we are asking the Prime Minister to accept responsibility for comments that he made to the House.
The Prime Minister clearly declared that the ethics counsellor had been consulted and said nothing that changed the Prime Minister's mind about his decision to retain the heritage minister. In fact, the ethics counsellor was not asked to give a ruling on that matter so how could he have provided advice to the Prime Minister on that subject?
Could the Prime Minister explain this contradiction between his own comments and the comments of the ethics counsellor?