Mr. Speaker, in reference to the sponsorship scandal, the Prime Minister has recently been quoted as saying, “I did not particularly like the way the government did it at the time”. He was the finance minister. He was the vice-chair of the Treasury Board and the senior minister from Quebec in Jean Chrétien's cabinet. He had the power to blow the whistle.
Why did the Prime Minister not speak up before millions of dollars of taxpayers' money was wasted?