Mr. Speaker, on February 20, 2004, the Minister of Transport, former head of the Quebec wing of the Liberal Party of Canada, and now a member of this House, said in an interview with La Presse that Deloitte & Touche had been given “a very broad mandate” to track the sponsorship money.
How could the Minister of Transport make such a statement at that time when, in reality, the mandate was extremely narrow and there was no possibility whatsoever of identifying the bulk of the contributors involved in the sponsorship scandal?