Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Prime Minister claimed that he had followed all of the conflict of interest rules and turned everything over to his trustee.
However, on January 27, 1996, it was not the trustee who contacted the ethics counsellor, as it should have been, it was the Prime Minister himself.
Under the terms of the blind trust agreement, the Prime Minister should not even have known about the problem with his shares.
Why was the Prime Minister involving himself with his blind trust, in direct violation of the conflict of interest code?