Mr. Speaker, we have said repeatedly that there were problems and that we were trying to do something about them.
As I told the Leader of the Opposition, these things happen in all public administrations. If I may I would like to cite a passage from the June 2000 report of the auditor general of Quebec, which had this to say with respect to acquisitions of services under the PQ government:
In addition, 58% of cases included violations of significant clauses in the contract and yet no memos were on file to explain these anomalies.
And with respect to Emploi-Québec:
In addition, we noted a perverse effect in the [manpower training] fund management—
It reads further:
Follow-up done by Emploi-Québec after grants are made—