Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister said in a letter to Canadians published in the National Post that he would never influence the Business Development Bank. Later, when the bank was trying to collect on the loan to the Auberge Grand-Mère, the Prime Minister's pressure on the bank was revealed in sworn testimony.
The Prime Minister also said that there were no ties between the golf course, for which he had not been paid, and the inn, which he forced the Business Development Bank to prop up against the bank's better judgment. Now it turns out again in sworn testimony that the financial survival of the inn was tied to the golf course.
Would the government explain why sworn testimony keeps contradicting the words of our Prime Minister?