Madam Speaker, as for the Irving Whale , the minister says she rejects the solution recommended in the Marex study, although it was commissioned by her department and the Coast Guard, because, according to her, this firm has financial interests in the pumping method it recommended.
Last week, after last summer's failed refloating attempt that cost us $12 million, the minister said she was rejecting the offer to strike an expert panel to review the issue, made by the Société pour vaincre la pollution, or SVP, on account of Daniel Green's financial interest in this proposal. I recall that, last year, the minister went as far as claiming in this House that SVP had gone bankrupt. She has some nerve. What is obvious is that the minister is always trying to discredit those who think differently from her in order to compensate for and hide her incompetence and lack of action in several areas
Discrediting is what the minister does best. On another-