Mr. Speaker, what I would like to make clear is that her top bureaucrats, officials and personal staff spent much of last fall in a frenzy trying to prepare for the fallout that was going to be coming forward because of this now famous audit.
Damage control plans were in full swing last August to prepare for the fallout but that did not phase the minister. Between August and December she shovelled another $500 million out in programs, the very programs that bungled the first billion dollars.
If everyone else around the minister knew the results and the damage, why did they let her keep that chequebook in her hand?