Mr. Speaker, it is revealing that the very first thing the department did once it knew by the interim audit that there was a big problem in the department was to develop a communications plan rather than fix the problem.
Here is what actually happened. The communications plan and strategy was ready to go as of August because there was a crisis in the midst, but the minister waited until January to release the information on the audit. Why? She waited by happy coincidence until the day after we submitted an access to information request.
How long was the minister really planning to keep it under cover that she had actually bungled a billion dollars?