Mr. Speaker, in an article published in the Ottawa Citizen and headlined:
"The Deputy Prime Minister dodged the blame for budget cuts at CBC".
-it says, and I quote:
"Don't blame me for cutting the CBC budget", the Minister of Canadian Heritage told an audience of journalists in Ottawa, "blame the finance minister".
The article goes on to say, and I quote:
"She repeated several times that the finance minister should be held accountable for the cuts".
Does the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Canadian Heritage admit she said that the Minister of Finance, her very dear colleague, should take the blame for the cuts to the CBC?