Mr. Speaker, last week the youth minister said that her accounting was not a problem because she paid the money back within days and she actually had a cheque stapled to the form. According to the ethics counsellor,
the youth minister waited up to four months to pay these bills. There is a discrepancy here. It must be really nice. I will bet the Canadian taxpayers did not know they were bankrolling the Government of Canada's "don't pay a cent event".
Can the Deputy Prime Minister explain why the youth minister was allowed up to four months to pay back money owed to the taxpayers of Canada?