Mr. Speaker, is that minister now passing the buck to the bureaucrats? The former head of the Business Development Bank told us all about political interference.
Public servants gave verbal approval to contracts and kept no paperwork. They waived legal and quality control reviews and they gave contracts on an emergency basis for no reason at all. An employee told the auditor general that “this was how business was done”.
Public servants do not break the rules on a whim. Someone told them to. Why are the Liberals corrupting our supposedly independent public service?