Mr. Speaker, how do we even know that? As for the ethics counsellor, what do we expect him to say except that his boss is the best?
We are not getting straight answers here. The government obviously has something to hide. Again, we know that there were three shareholders. The Prime Minister claims that he was not a shareholder and the ethics counsellor says “yeah, you bet”, although why in the world would they have this conversation in 1996 then? That is a moot point. There would have been no need to even have that discussion if it was in fact in a blind trust.
The industry minister, through this investigation, will soon know who that is and the Canadian public demands to know—