Mr. Speaker, outside the House the heritage minister clearly and specifically stated that neither she nor her department lobbied Liberal backbenchers to defeat the bill on banning negative option billing by the cable companies. However, I have the minister's memo in hand which specifically endorses negative option billing and encourages Liberal members to vote against the negative option ban.
Further, I have a document on the minister's letterhead which specifically states that the members should vote no, government position, nay.
With this evidence in hand, how can the minister explain the discrepancy between what she was saying outside the House and the written evidence?