Mr. Speaker, as usual, the Prime Minister is reacting like a school-yard bully to the opposition's request for accountability in the matter of the $3 billion slush fund. This is what the Auditor General said in 2002 about the Liberals' sponsorship fund: “...the basic principle at the root of our concerns is simple: spending by departments must have the prior sanction of Parliament”.
How can the Conservatives justify using the same methods as the Liberals used in the sponsorship scandal? How can they just ignore the Auditor General's warnings about slush funds?