Mr. Speaker, once again we can see how seriously my colleague takes RCMP investigations. Are RCMP investigations a myth? Is the auditor general's report a myth?
This tells me just how much the government members want to minimize the problem, saying “Yes, but the Quebec government approved the grants”. One can approve a grant but the responsibility is theirs to do a follow-up on the programs, to have the right funding and to see to it that the criteria are met.
Speaking of bad faith, we are told for example that our communities need that money; I agree. Why do we want all these programs to be clarified? Because we want all communities to benefit from them.
Where has all that money gone? We are talking about $100,000 here, $1 million there and $200,000 elsewhere. I would have preferred to see these amounts to go to my communities instead of discovering that they got lost somewhere.
The government should stop blaming the opposition parties for wanting to get to the bottom of this scandal. I will not stop using the word scandal, because this is in fact a scandal. A government that does not know where the money has gone, that does not do a follow-up on its grants, should not be in charge of managing the public finances.