Mr. Speaker, as a direct result of an investigation by the justice minister's department, it now appears that Canadians could be on the hook for millions of dollars. Now the justice minister is saying he is leaving it to the lawyers to negotiate a possible settlement in this case.
Is the minister seriously telling us that he is giving nameless departmental lawyers the authority to pay millions of dollars to Brian Mulroney in a possible settlement which he says he knows nothing about, or is he really aware of everything that is going on and he is just trying to hide it?