Mr. Speaker, we are talking about documentation sent by the minister's own department. Reading once again from Hansard , May 25, 1999, at page 15255, the Minister of Finance stated:
I have asked my officials to look at our papers but at the present time we have found nothing.
We know the Department of Finance had a faxed copy of the CDC minutes by July 6 yet on July 8 advised that it did not possess these documents.
Six weeks after the finance minister said they had found nothing, they still said they had found nothing. Did they conveniently lose the documents, or did they fail to obey the finance minister's instructions?