Mr. Speaker, my colleague is not helping the Prime Minister's case. He is hurting it. He is further muddying the waters. We want to get to the bottom of this. He brags that the Prime Minister cancelled this contract as soon as he became Prime Minister.
I think he became Prime Minister 63 days ago. The AG report came out on Tuesday of last week. He cancelled it before the Auditor General's report came out which means that he knew the program was bogus, corrupt and money laundering. He knew about it before the Auditor General's report. How is that accountability?
He waited until the avalanche of bad publicity from the Auditor General's report to say that they will hold an inquiry. The very fact that he cancelled the program when he came into office before the Auditor General's report came down says that he knew. Of course he knew and he damned well better have known because he was the chief financial officer of the country. He should have known where $250 million was being spent in his own province of Quebec. It was his job. Of course he knew about the program.
For the member to say that he is doing everything he can because he got rid of the program, he should have never financed the program. He should have never become involved in a money laundering scheme. He should have known better.