Mr. Speaker, Canadians want their government to be accountable and responsible, if nothing else. In this particular situation, with the HRDC grants, we see a government that is not responsible and, it appears, will not be accountable either.
This is an important issue and one which the leader of the opposition and the Reform Party have undertaken to bell the cat, so to speak.
Would the Leader of the Opposition give us his views on the Minister for International Trade, who was brought from Quebec by the Prime Minister as the person who would save Canada, the éminence grise who was going to do all the wonderful things to back up the Liberal Party and make our country united, the man who was put in charge of the department, and who has, in my view and I think in the view of all Canadians, been a royal American disaster?
Can the Leader of the Opposition tell us whether we should have both the Minister for International Trade and the Minister of Human Resources Development resign or just the Minister for International Trade? Also, would he support an investigation by a parliamentary committee or the RCMP into this terrible waste of taxpayers' money?