Did I hear the word Schreiber, Mr. Speaker, or Elmer?
This is not Monopoly money; this is taxpayers' money.
The minister said yesterday that losing $300 million was a nice problem and that it proved that he had enough money. The problem is that the Auditor General believes that his department's financial management and monitoring are a problem. Departmental officials do not even know where the money was spent. The minister has no control over his own department.
How much more money is he prepared to lose by his incompetence and still call that a nice problem?