Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister intervened through his office when he was Minister of Finance, in order to split a contract worth $600,000 to promote the hiring of the EKOS company, a partner of Earnscliffe, which thus obtained a contract for $300,000 without being the lowest bidder.
Can the Prime Minister, who denounced cronyism in the sponsorship scandal, explain why he acted in the same way to give an advantage to his buddies in the Earnscliffe matter?