Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Prime Minister unveiled his government's action plan to take, as he put it, "unprecedented action to open up the process of government in Ottawa". In his statement, the Prime Minister said, and I quote: "Deals like the Pearson Airport deal must never be allowed to happen again".
Since the Prime Minister claims to mean business when he talks about restoring integrity in the federal administration, how does he explain his government's refusal to give to the ethics counsellor the mandate to investigate the role of lobbyists in the Pearson Airport scandal?