Mr. Speaker, in 1988, the Prime Minister bought a golf course for the sum of $1 from Consolidated Bathurst. In 1996, he sold a parcel of this land for the sum of $525,000 to Claude Gauthier who, in turn, received a CIDA contract worth $6 million and a $1.2 million grant from Human Resources Development Canada.
Are the Prime Minister's financial successes due to his talents as a real estate agent or to his contacts in the departments?