Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Deputy Prime Minister.
Roger Farley, a senior government official, stands by his word that the present minister of immigration intervened on behalf of a $500,000 contract for Groupe Everest in 2000. The minister of course says it is totally false.
The partisan minister and the non-partisan official cannot both be right. If the Deputy Prime Minister takes the word of the minister over that of the official, what steps are being taken to reprimand the official? If he believes the official over the minister, what steps are being taken to investigate the actions of the present minister of immigration?