Mr. Speaker, for days now the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration has denied that he pulled any strings to give his friends at Everest a lucrative federal advertising contract.
Yesterday, however, a former executive director under the minister confirmed, yes, confirmed, that the allegation was true and that the minister did give his friends at Groupe Everest half a million dollars in federal contracts.
Why did the minister give his Everest friends a lucrative contract and then try to cover it up?