Madam Chairman, obviously the minister is not familiar with the facts because it was an access to information request that found some of the problems in Groupaction and it was the audit of 2000 that revealed some of these problems.
There are a number of issues that flow from this. One of them is that the minister is saying that after nine days he does not have a handle on what is going on in his department. Clearly this is a huge issue. He keeps ducking and dodging what he knows about the problems in his department. I would like to hear some answers about some of these contracts that have been awarded.
Can the minister explain to the House how it is that millions of dollars are awarded to friends of the Liberal Party and companies that have associations with the Liberal Party, for instance, on the basis of a verbal agreement? Can he explain that to the House?