Mr. Speaker, the government has announced that it intends to recover the $333,000 in sponsorships paid for the Salon du grand air de Québec, which never took place.
That is too easy. That is too convenient. They recover the money and, at the same time, put a lid on the whole business.
Does the government realize that what we want to know, and what only a public inquiry will uncover, is why and by whom permission was given not to require repayment of the sponsorship when officials knew very well that the event had been cancelled?