Mr. Speaker, he has not come to a conclusion because the Prime Minister has not told him what to say yet.
During the last election the ethics counsellor claimed that the Prime Minister was not in conflict when he forced the Business Development Bank to lend $600,000 to the Auberge Grand-Mère. The ethics counsellor took as an authority the B.C. conflict commissioner's report, yet he deliberately left out the portion of that report that prohibited ministers from lobbying agencies of the crown. Now he has suddenly had a revelation.
Was the ethics counsellor not simply a convenient political tool used by the Prime Minister during the last federal election campaign?