Mr. Speaker, it is ironic the minister said that because in 1986 the Tory revenue minister diverted $20 million from a federal-provincial agreement to a road through his Nova Scotia riding and the Liberals here were incensed. Now the Liberal minister of public works has diverted $26 million from a federal-provincial agreement to his Nova Scotia riding and the Tories are incensed. It is déjà-vu.
Since the minister of public works refuses to answer anyone's question on this serious issue, we would like to borrow the words of the minister. Would the Prime Minister "put up or shut up?" Will he refer this issue to the ethics lap-person or is he content to go down in history as being just as big a hypocrite as Brian Mulroney?