Mr. Speaker, either the Prime Minister was involved in this ad scam or he was completely incompetent.
Cabinet documents revealed today show that there were 13 Treasury Board meetings dealing with the sponsorship program. The Prime Minister was the vice-chair of the Treasury Board at the time. There were 13 meetings, but he only attended one meeting. That is 8 % of the meetings.
My question is: how can the Prime Minister justify not being involved in overseeing the proper use of taxpayers' money when he was vice-chair of the Treasury Board? Was he too busy undermining the former Prime Minister at the time to do his job?