Mr. Speaker, in fact I think my exact words were that she admitted her mistake and I appreciated the fact that she had done that. Then she said further to that that she had not really made a mistake and everything was okay and the Prime Minister agreed. We have uncovered documents through access to information that are quite clearly contradictory to what she tabled. The bottom line is far deeper than that.
The ethics guidelines that are supposed to be in place for all the cabinet ministers should be made completely public and documented for the Canadian public to see. The government promised integrity in action but all we see is integrity in hiding. The Prime Minister is fond of saying that the buck stops with him. What he does not seem to understand is that the buck stays with the Canadian public. They are the taxpayers.
I ask the Deputy Prime Minister: Why does the Prime Minister stubbornly refuse to let the taxpayers see these phantom guidelines for the ministers when in fact they are their ministers and it is their money?