Madam Chairman, with respect to issues related to sponsorship which is the particular topic of complaint here, I would remind the hon. gentleman that I explicitly froze the process as of Monday last week and it remains frozen. No new approvals have been made since that time. I indicated I wanted to be satisfied that the criteria of the programs were correct and that all the projects would fit within those criteria.
In terms of the publication of contracts, my understanding of the ordinary operating procedure is that all contracts issued by my department are automatically registered on the contracts Canada website.