Mr. Speaker, the Grand-Mère golf course stands to benefit from government grants and loans given to a neighbouring hotel. It also benefited financially by selling $500,000 worth of land to the recipient of a government contract.
The Prime Minister called the ethics counsellor in January 1996 to warn him that the sale of his shares in the Grand-Mère golf course had fallen through. In other words, he admitted that he was now in a conflict of interest and he asked the ethics counsellor what he should do.
Well, if he saw that it was a conflict of interest in 1996, why can he not see that it is still a conflict of interest today?