Mr. Speaker, again last week the Minister of National Defence responded to allegations about political meddling on behalf of Eurocopter's helicopter bid as “largely untrue”, yet Canada's ambassador to France did write to the Prime Minister's Office, he did outline changes Eurocopter wanted and the process was changed.
Now senior defence officials, including Colonel Akitt, have emerged to support these types of allegations.
Will the minister confirm that the decision to rebundle the two contracts into one permitted Eurocopter to stay in the competition?