Mr. Speaker, we know that her own department officials expressed concern about a conflict of interest with regard to this $4.9 million grant.
We now know that it was the ethics counsellor himself--it was not referred to the ethics counsellor--that pre-approved this loan for Canadian Shipbuilding & Engineering. He did not review it afterwards.
Why were the concerns of these public servants ignored by the industry minister in giving taxpayer money to the Prime Minister's companies?