Mr. Speaker, I will just ignore the sounds of violins for a second.
I want to be clear. The minister received a favour from a government contractor. Subsequently, his company received three-quarters of a million dollars in contracts from the minister's department. The minister of public works then tried to convince this House and the public that he had paid the contractor for the service. That proved not to be true. No transaction actually took place until yesterday.
Does the minister not understand why the right thing to do is to resign?