Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Treasury Board president was deafening by his silence.
We have demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt, both on the written record and on tape, that this minister has dismissed funding to address adult literacy as wasteful and not something the Government of Canada should help with after the fact.
The Treasury Board president denied those remarks, but the hard evidence clearly proves otherwise.
Will he simply confess that he misspoke himself and reinstate $18 million for those Canadians who need that help with their literacy skills?