The Minister of National Defence says he is all for it but he authorized $2 million out of his operating budget to finance the Downsview Inc. subsidiary to develop a little housing development in the backyard of the Minister of Transport. We should be spending our defence money getting our soldiers prepared and ready to defend the country, if that is what is needed after September 11, yet he is into a housing development with DND money. This cannot be allowed and the auditor general says it has to stop.
In the House of Commons on December 4th, 2001. See this statement in context.