Mr. Speaker, the President of the Treasury Board has risen in this House to solemnly state that all Treasury Board rules for contracts had been complied with.
How can she say that all rules have been complied with when we know that the firearms communications contract was never ordered by the Department of Justice, the person who approved the contract did not have the power to do so, and there was no monitoring of how it was carried out? Ought not all these elements to have been checked before payment was made?