Mr. Speaker, I am sure the government of the day is in no great hurry to go to the Canadian people and seek a mandate based on its performance throughout the past number of months, in fact, the past seven years. I would suggest that in many ways it has betrayed the interests of Canadians.
The government has given Canadians very little reason to believe in it or have confidence that it will do what it said it would do, let alone act in their best interests given the deception and deceit that was involved in the handling of this file. What we truly need is some sort of public inquiry.
I spoke with the auditor general this morning. His office is embarking on the very difficult task of trying to sort out some of what has taken place and mull over the entrails of a program that was fatally flawed and administered in a very deficient and faulty fashion.
There are people in the HRDC department who are being forced to deal with public scorn on behalf of the minister. There is a political element to all this that has raised the ire and raised the stench, but it is not those in the department and those who are tasked with trying to fix this problem that we should be lashing out at. We should be lashing out at the government and the administration for their lack of responsibility and the arrogance they have been displayed in a fashion that we have sadly become accustomed to.