Mr. Speaker, the minister talks about administrative deficiencies. We are certainly seeing a whole lot more than that. The Prime Minister has doled out cash in his own riding for years. It is hard to expect high standards from ministers when their boss is breaking the rules left, right and centre.
Pierre Thibault was promised $600,000 of that money without even filing any paperwork with Human Resources Development. That was the same month the 1997 election was called.
Is the Prime Minister protecting his minister because he knows he has been directly involved with this billion dollar bungle?