Madam Speaker, I am very pleased to offer my comments on this very misguided Reform opposition motion which we are debating today. I find it quite astonishing that some members, especially those of the Reform Party, would claim that the government is trying to hide something here when it was the minister herself who made the internal audit known to the public.
I heard the hon. member for Medicine Hat talk about pathetic. What is pathetic is what the Reform Party and others are trying to do in this debate, which is to misrepresent the facts to the extent they are. It is absolutely shameful but it is so typical of the pathetic Reform Party. What it is good at—