Mr. Speaker, the minister says he is responsible for the actions of his department, but in our parliamentary system the essence of ministerial responsibility can be summed up in one word, confidence. Once you lose the confidence of the people you must resign. That is true of governments and it is also true of individual ministers.
This minister and his chief of defence staff have lost the confidence of the rank and file in his own department. He has lost the confidence of the Canadian people and, as evidenced by boards this weekend, he has lost the confidence from even his own general staff. When will he resign?