Mr. Speaker, the issue of the finance minister having found himself in a potential conflict of interest due to his past directorship with the Canada Development Corporation is hardly new.
On May 25, 1999, when questioned in the House he replied, and I quote from Hansard :
I would be delighted to have whatever papers could be made available to be made available.
We now know that his department had copies of CDC minutes by July 8 yet replied to our request that it did not. Why did the Minister of Finance not keep his word to the House?