Mr. Speaker, the Secretary of State for Children and Youth tells us we could have left the minister to conduct her inquiry, but when we see how responsibly this inquiry was conducted by the Liberal government and particularly by the Minister of Human Resources Development, we are very concerned.
It took a long time to get the details of the auditor general's report. The minister has known of the situation at the Department of Human Resources Development since August.
The opposition parties, including the Bloc Quebecois, have continued to raise various facets of this scandal at Human Resources Development Canada and have taken seriously the findings of the auditor general: mismanagement of programs, gaps, problems of compliance with legislative provisions, program design weaknesses, poor control and insufficient information on results.
The minister answers our questions daily essentially pretty much along the same lines. We are witnessing the total routing of the Liberal government, and I think I have more faith in the opposition parties, who saw clearly the Liberals' game of handing out grants for partisan purposes and using taxpayers' money for political obstruction.
I might wonder why my riding would not get some over other ridings the government chose.