Mr. Speaker, in some of these arm's length organizations the arms get pretty short.
The Prime Minister accepts tens of thousands of dollars in contributions from Mr. Gauthier. He then does personal business deals that pull in over half a million dollars for Mr. Gauthier. Then when Mr. Gauthier gets a $6.3 million government contract, the Prime Minister and his government wonder why anyone would see a conflict with that.
We would like to hear an answer from the Prime Minister to this question. Why does he not get up? Why does the Prime Minister always pretend there is no conflict when it is as plain as the pavement on his driveway?