Mr. Speaker, the auditor general slammed the human resources department yesterday. He said that he had never seen mismanagement on the scale of this giant fiasco.
However, the internal audit that uncovered the billion dollar bungle was only the latest in a long series of warnings that this and previous HRD ministers have received over the past two decades. The Liberals ignored those warnings because it allowed them to continue using taxpayers' money for partisan political purposes.
If the minister were sincere in wanting to clean up her department, why did she wait until she was caught before implementing a plan?