Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Immigration keeps on saying “secretaries of state do not award contracts”. Yet the director of the task force on amateur sport still maintains that the former secretary of state wanted Everest hired for his consultation tour.
Since the Minister of Public Works claims not to know what went on at Canadian Heritage, can the Minister of Canadian Heritage explain to us why Everest's bid was forwarded to the Secretary of State for Amateur Sport, a secretariat which the Minister of Immigration says cannot award contracts?