Mr. Speaker, in 1991 the Prime Minister did proclaim one of his ethical guidelines. He promised that every minister in his cabinet would assume full responsibility for any bungling in their departments.
How is letting the defence minister gag the Somalia inquiry assuming full responsibility? How is letting the justice minister go on a political witch hunt with the justice department assuming full responsibility? How is the Prime Minister's promising to scrap the GST and denying the promise was made assuming full responsibility for the commitment?
When the Prime Minister promised to hold his ministers responsible for any bungling, did he mean what he said or was this just another empty promise like killing the GST?