Mr. Speaker, listen to this for stewardship. The minister of HRDC said that she took action when she became aware that her department was in the dark ages in the management of grants and contributions.
Last spring the auditor general reported on a $1.9 billion TAGS program: 34% did not contain any proposal, 26% had no clear objectives and one-third did not meet the criteria under which they had been approved. I could go on.
Why did the minister wait until this January, almost a whole year, before she took action on this mismanagement and incompetence?