Mr. Speaker, with that kind of rhetoric coming from the Prime Minister, obviously they do have something to hide.
Bombardier got an untendered, unadvertised, non-competitive contract amounting to $2.85 billion. The government says that it did not have the time to make this contract competitive. However, Public Works' documents show that it took three years to close the deal.
My question to the Prime Minister is: Three years? Why no competition?