Mr. Speaker, the job of the auditor general is to drag skeletons out of the closet and there is one right here. A consultant's report prepared by a first nations reserve in Ontario estimated the cost of repairing a water treatment plant at $26,000. When the Canadian taxpayers got the bill it was for $2.3 million.
Given that the final cost of this project is about 100 times the original estimate, my question to the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development is why did she go to the expense of replacement rather than sticking with the original plans which were adequate for the purposes?