Mr. Speaker, this week Liberals tabled a memo to justify the so-called security reasons in the case of the untendered contracts for the Prime Minister's cottage. The memo raises other questions.
It shows that the RCMP asked for $80,000 to build a guard post on the road. They actually awarded two untendered contracts worth $137,000 for this work. Now we learn that costs have reached $147,000 for the road alone, with no final billing yet.
In total, to date they have spent $200,000 on the Prime Minister's personal cottage. The money has gone to the Prime Minister's personal contractor who allegedly meets security criteria but whose subcontractors are now before the courts on fraud charges.
Canadian's are asking, how can they be sure the overruns are not subsidizing the costs of the Prime Minister's private cottage when the contracts went untendered to the same contractor before construction of the cottage was complete?
Why has the extra $120,000 gone to a Liberal friend?
It is time the Prime Minister cleared the air on this matter by tabling all relevant documents.