Madam Speaker, it somehow does not surprise me that the Liberals want to limit the minister's exposure here. The minister has just talked at some length about the fact that she has made all this disclosure. Just in the short time I had, and I could not make a comprehensive list, there are five things the minister has not disclosed. I might think of more as I am speaking.
The 10,000 pages simply said that x number of dollars went to x company in x riding. It does not disclose what the dollars were intended to fund. It does not disclose whether the intended results for the expenditure of that money were obtained.
The minister hid the Deloitte & Touche criticism of her six point plan. Scores of access requests have been unlawfully delayed by her department, a department by the way that has over 20,000 employees but somehow cannot find the bodies to deliver the documents that are requested by law within 30 days to the opposition and other members of the public. In fact, the information commissioner told the committee that delay was actually deliberate.
There was no disclosure of the audit itself until the opposition put in an access request for it. There was no disclosure of the progress report of the six point plan to the committee until after the committee proceedings started. Then the minister said we had lots of time to ask her questions. We had not laid eyes on the report, but we were supposed to ask her searching questions about it. She had time to give it to the media.
She has not disclosed the investigation into the Conili grant that she said cleared the member for Ahuntsic and the department of any wrongdoing in this grant that did not create jobs, but she will not give us that report. She censored six pages of an Arthur Andersen audit of a grant that criticized her department.
The minister has a whole history of non-disclosure of important information, and these are only samples of what I am able to bring out in a short period of time. How can the minister have the nerve to stand in the House and pretend to Canadians that she is being honest and open when her record indicates otherwise?