Mr. Speaker, we know the minister had that audit in hand on November 17. Why did she not come before the House then and come clean with Canadians?
For days the minister has dodged questions in the House and pointed the finger at officials, previous ministers and members of the opposition in a weak attempt to lend credibility to what was an obvious effort to pad employment in her own riding. This type of creative accounting has baffled Statistics Canada officials, MPs and Canadians generally.
With this fiasco now firmly stuck to the minister, will she display some semblance of credibility and ministerial responsibility and simply resign?