Mr. Speaker, yesterday, while a parliamentary secretary was intimating that the federal government could not appoint a government negotiator in the matter of the millennium scholarships, because the foundation manages the money of taxpayers, we learned that the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs made a commitment on Saturday to Jean Charest to delegate a federal deputy minister.
Why did the minister, who knew there was a government appointment and a negotiator on the way, refuse to so inform the House? Why is he hiding this appointment he has been asked to make for quite some time?