Mr. Speaker, in an effort to cover up its disastrous management of the groundfish stocks, the government established the Atlantic groundfish strategy. According to the auditor general, the Department of Human Resources Development failed miserably and spent $150 million on ill-defined programs.
My question is for the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans. In the face of this monstrous disaster, for which the federal government is totally responsible, how can we fail to conclude that the Liberals tried to buy the silence of the fishers by spending millions of dollars any which way?