Mr. Speaker, I would like to direct another question to the minister of public works.
The minister knows that when he demanded the resignation of the former minister of justice, when allegations of scandal swirled around him and when confusion reigned about whether he had engaged in unethical conduct or not, he asked that the minister step down “until the whole mess can be cleared up and corrected”. At the very least the public works minister must agree that there has been a virtual rat's maze created of confusion about--