Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Canadian Heritage tries to deflect accusations by saying that the Prime Minister was just being a good MP. In the past, the Prime Minister himself has compared the grants he has doled out in Shawinigan to the recipient who got a grant in my riding.
But here is the difference and let us be very clear about this. I did not sell a money losing business to the recipient in my riding. I did not even know the recipient personally. No person from my riding association received an $11,000 payment for landing the grant.
My question for the Prime Minister is, will he drop the charade and just admit that this had little to do with jobs in his riding but a lot to do with keeping his job in Ottawa?