Mr. Speaker, I do know this. Don Barnard is another loyal Liberal in that same riding and he received tax dollars. In fact, he told a business associate that he would use his Liberal Party connections to secure an HRD grant.
What do we learn? When Liberal Pierre Corbeil tied government grants to Liberal Party donations he was convicted of influence peddling. When the Prime Minister's personal representative, Rene Fugere, secured grants for some unregistered lobbyists he found himself in hot water with the RCMP.
When will the HRD minister learn that allowing Liberal members to use their Liberal Party connections to get their hands on taxpayers' dollars is wrong, wrong, wrong every time?