Mr. Speaker, if rhetoric were dollars, the Liberals would not have a deficit.
For two years the government has said that it cancelled the Pearson contract because, in the words of the former Liberal Minister of Transport, it was the biggest rip-off in Canadian history. Now the justice department is trying to defend the government in one of its several lawsuits by claiming the contract was so bad for developers that they would have lost millions.
Will the minister please tell this House which of these two claims he wishes to retract: the one used to cancel the contract, or the one now being used to defend the government? It is impossible for both positions to be true.