What party? That was the Liberal Party spelled with a large L . He is in daily consultation with Mr. Paul Zed, former Liberal member of Parliament who was defeated in the last election. Mr. Paul Zed is in business with Mr. Doug Young, the former minister of transport.
Think about this. Would there be a possible conflict of interest? Doug Young, the former minister of transport charged with the overseeing of this bill. He was the minister who introduced the very bill that we were talking about in the last Parliament. He was the minister. Now he is being paid by these interests out of New Jersey to represent them in overseeing the orderly transition—they call it orderly transition—from a public facility to a private facility. Here we have this group of insiders all being paid by Mr. Randy Waterman to ensure that they gain control of that port.
The parliamentary secretary was given the wrong information and that is why I interjected quite vigorously on a point of order. I know I was ruled correctly by you, Mr. Speaker, that it was not a legitimate point of order but this is legitimate. This is the very document in my hands, 40 pages in length, that details page by page with the numbers there to present their case to the province of New Brunswick and the federal government why this port should be given to them. The name of the document is “Bayside Port Acquisition and Development Proposal”.
Acquisition. If we look in any dictionary, acquisition means assuming ownership, taking ownership. They want to take ownership of that port. I have a document here which the government denied existed for a number of weeks until finally the document was leaked to yours truly. That is why the make-up and integrity of that board is so important.
The parliamentary secretary did mention an individual by the name of Fred Nicholson. Fred Nicholson is an honourable man. He is a lawyer. He is a very bright individual. I want to point this out—