Mr. Speaker, the minister did not answer my question as to when the government knew. We know he has only been there for two or three weeks.
In this case we have a public works official, Charles Guité, with no authority to pay for a missing $300,000 contract yet he paid anyway. No one is examining how or why the Prime Minister allowed this to go on year after year. No one is examining the link between these contracts and donations to the Liberal Party.
Will the minister stop handling these on a case by case basis and instead do the right thing and call an independent public inquiry now?