Mr. Chair, I would like to raise one more question that my colleague from Elmwood--Transcona raised. It is an issue in which I have been involved for a long time, and that is the situation vis-à-vis the Virginia Fontaine Centre. I know he made a commitment tonight to pursue the matter once the court process is completed and that he did not rule out a public inquiry.
I would suggest to the minister that the government look at the idea of a public inquiry as soon as possible from the point of view of not looking at guilt or innocence, vis-à-vis the charges, but looking at how in the world we could see millions of dollars disappear out from under the government, with a volcano basically erupting in the department, and the deputy minister and the minister not knowing about it.
I think the idea of a public inquiry is to find out what checks and balances were not being followed, what kind of surveillance of departmental spending was inadequately being pursued to end up with the situation of millions of dollars being signed off and then frittered away in terms of trips, condominiums, hockey tickets, cars and cruises.