Mr. Speaker, the Canada Information Office, or CIO, is definitely a rather special body.
In addition to flouting all the public service's hiring practices, the CIO is permitted to award contracts of up to $150,000, six times the usual amount, without going to tender.
My question is for the Minister of Public Works, or the chief political organizer for Quebec, for they are one and the same. How does he explain the fact that 80% of CIO's contracts over a 16-month period were awarded without tender?