Mr. Speaker, during the last election campaign, the Prime Minister did the rounds of TV studios, in a state of indignation, to say that he knew nothing about the sponsorship program and how angry the whole thing was making him.
How could he not know and at the same time be so efficient that, with a single telephone call, in his capacity as the Minister of Finance and vice-chair of the Treasury Board, he was able to reverse an unfavourable decision and secure not only a $250,000 sponsorship for his friends André Ouellet and Serge Savard, but also a generous contribution to Groupe Everest?