Mr. Speaker, yesterday, at a fund raising cocktail where guests had to pay $250 each, the Minister of Foreign Affairs accused the Quebec director general of elections of not being impartial in asking the federal government to comply with the spending limits provided in Quebec's Elections Act.
By attacking the professional integrity of Mr. Pierre-F. Côté, and by showing his contempt for Quebec's election rules, the Minister of Foreign Affairs shows an arrogance typical of the Trudeau years.
It is ironic that the minister would make such comments at a fund raising cocktail. He would be better advised to implement the commitments made by the Liberal Party regarding ethics and to table legislation on the financing of political parties, based on the principles of transparency and fairness contained in the Quebec act.