Mr. Speaker, when the sponsorship scandal broke, the Prime Minister claimed innocence. He told Canadians, “I did not know anything about it”, that he had been kept out of the loop. About the national unity fund, he said, “I have not used it”.
Now, of course, we know that he got thousands of sponsorship dollars for his personal bagman. He got a fat contract from the unity fund for a leadership supporter.
He was in the loop, lobbying for a piece of the action. Why does the Prime Minister not answer these discrepancies, openly here in Parliament, as a leader should?