Mr. Speaker, before she was briefed. In fact, the access to information response that we have said that she asked to be briefed on “hot issues” only.
On August 9 she received that briefing on the transitional jobs fund, the Canada jobs fund, as well as grants and contributions. That was a week after 40 senior officials met for two days to discuss that crisis. They knew what was hot. On August 9 the minister was briefed.
Why does the minister keep pretending that she only knew about it in November?