Mr. Speaker, surprise, surprise, the Canadian Alliance members and their favourite national tabloid have discovered that meetings do take place in my department, that people do come in from out of town to attend those meetings and that e-mails are exchanged. They even report information that has been a matter of public knowledge for months, that I was briefed on November 17.
Clearly there was work being done in my department on the internal audit before the audit was completed and before I was briefed. That is as it should be.