Mr. Speaker, we disavowed such comments as soon as they were uttered. I do not know any Pierre Blais, but I do know that this minister is skirting the issue. Perhaps he needs videotapes to understand the reality, just as the defence minister understands only when he can see the evidence on videotape.
I ask him again the same question. His assistant deputy minister made unacceptable comments, mostly about native people. Will he punish his assistant deputy minister or does he only have a problem with the fact that there was a leak? Is this his sense of responsibility, that a leak is serious? What he said shows his inability to take action. If this minister is incapable of taking action against an assistant deputy minister who made such comments about Quebec and its native people, he should not be a government minister.