Mr. Speaker, it was not reported by the minister when he appeared before the committee, it was not in the spending estimates and it was not in the departmental performance review.
To quote the Auditor General, “What's...inexcusable is that Parliament was in the dark”. She said that when the Liberals hid their astronomical cost overruns for the gun registry, but it applies here too.
Canada deserves better than a government that does not tell us what it is up to and hopes no one will dig deep enough to find out.
Why do the Liberals prefer to govern by stealth?