Mr. Speaker, defeated Liberal candidate Serge Paquette, and former assistant to a Liberal MP Richard Bélisle, are the directors of Stratégie et Communication, the recipient of half a million dollars to organize seven months of tours by federal ministers around Quebec.
Can the Minister of Public Works tell us whether we are to understand from this that the Liberal government finds the ministers' own communications services so imcompetent that they have to award a half-million dollar contract to friends instead?