Mr. Speaker, the minister is being ever so careful with the words she chooses when she talks about when she was first aware of the problems in her department. She keeps saying that prior to November 17 there was only preliminary work done on the audit.
In the briefing schedule for the minister that we received through access to information it says that on the afternoon of August 9 she received briefings on the transitional jobs fund, the Canada jobs fund, and grants and contributions because those were the hot issues of the day and the minister wanted to be briefed.
Did she or did she not receive a briefing on August 9 about those hot issues, the transitional jobs fund—