Mr. Speaker, so why are they not accountable?
They can try all they like to distance themselves from this scandal, but it will end up swallowing them whole.
Gilles Varin, a long-time Conservative organizer, had dinner with Bernard Côté, the assistant to the former public works minister, before the contract was awarded. Gilles Varin helped organize a cocktail fundraiser with the Minister of Natural Resources after the contract was awarded. Senator Nolin's assistant, Hubert Pichet, says Varin talked to him about Public Works, and Varin walked away with $140,000.
Who in the Conservative government had their palms greased?