Mr. Speaker, the Deputy Prime Minister yesterday talked about a contract given to a bidder, who offered to do a piece of work under the rules as agreed to by the Canadian government and a foreign government, selected by them and at $2.5 million less than the others. The contract was for $6.5 million. The second bidder was $9 million.
The Reform Party thinks that we should have given it to the second one because the owner of the company, who has done business with the government for a long time—