Mr. Speaker, the noose is tightening around the neck of the Minister of Human Resources Development.
On June 14, 1999, a preliminary report was tabled. On July 27, 40 public servants from all over Canada were brought to Ottawa, to the department, to be briefed on what was going on in Human Resources Development Canada. On August 3, the minister was sworn in and received a briefing.
How can she have us believe that neither the PMO nor the former minister, who was aware of the situation, nor the Deputy Minister, who organized meetings of staff to inform them, could not have taken the trouble to inform her, the minister, the person supposedly responsible for the department, that there was a problem at Human Resources Development Canada?