Mr. Speaker, in view of the fact that Agusta has just hired the former director of communications of the Liberal Party of Canada, Daniel Despins, and the former special adviser to Pierre Elliott Trudeau, James Peacey, as lobbyists in order to sell helicopters to the Government of Canada, would the minister of public works assure us that he is not negotiating a new contract on the quiet with Agusta, in exchange for compensation for the cancellation of the last contract?
In the House of Commons on May 15th, 1995. See this statement in context.