Mr. Speaker, on June 16, 1996 we published the "Conflict of Interest and Post-Employment Code for Public Office Holders". We have issued the Lobbyists' Administration Act. We have other provisions in legislation to guide everybody in public office.
As far as communications by the Prime Minister to ministers, they are communications within the privy council. I do not release them but it is not very complicated.
I have said to ministers that they must adhere to the highest standards of conflict of interest that they can find. I am very proud to say that despite the member's innuendo there is only one minister who has given me his resignation. The reason he resigned was that he had written a letter to a tribunal to help a poor lady who wanted her husband to come to Canada.
There was no other resignation, and the member cannot say what she said because it is not the truth. There was only one, and everyone in Canada knows why the former minister of defence resigned.