Mr. Speaker, let us remember what the internal audit which sat on that desk actually said. It said that 15% of the grants did not have an application on file, 8 out of 10 did not have any financial monitoring, and 87% showed no evidence of supervision.
What was the minister's response? I would have thought it would have been a crisis, but she did not put an immediate freeze on spending, she did not argue that enough was enough, she did not say “Let us shut off the taps. Let us stop it now”. No, she swept that audit off her desk, got out the chequebook and started spending $1 million.
Why did she continue to spend money on these same grants when that audit said there was a spending control problem in her department?