Mr. Speaker, I do not know why the minister thinks she is going to get away with this. She has not answered the question for the second day in a row. It is as if being a Liberal means somebody else has to say that they are sorry.
They hired communications experts to try and give them a new and creative spin on it, but this is what happened after she knew what was going wrong in her department. She did not call her managers on the carpet and say that this had to stop. She did not freeze all new spending. She did not order an immediate audit of the grants that were going out.
What did she do? She swept the audit off her desk, opened up her chequebook and continued to write the cheques.
Why did it take two months for this minister to change her spending—