Mr. Speaker, it is great that the leader of the NDP has allowed the minister to come before the committee.
We want to point to the Auditor General's report when it talked about the sponsorship program. She said, “We would have expected the government to provide Parliament with at least a description of the program and its objectives”.
None of that is in Bill C-48. This is an expenditure of $4.6 billion and yet the government refuses to bring forward the minister who would actually have to implement the bill.
Is this not just an admission that the government cannot stand scrutiny on Bill C-48?