Mr. Speaker, the government is sponsoring an anti-tobacco conference in none other than the beautiful Italian resort of Bellagio. Last week the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health said the government is not donating a single penny to this conference. Yet information shows that Health Canada is giving $900,000 and the International Development Research Centre, a crown corporation, is giving another $2 million of the taxpayers' money to fund this conference.
Who is correct, the IDRC and Health Canada or the parliamentary secretary to the minister of Health?