Mr. Speaker, that is very hard to believe.
Paul Sauvé was told to organize this cocktail party because it was the thing to do when you won a construction contract from the Conservatives. At the party, the minister himself congratulated Mr. Sauvé on his big $10 million contract. That was not a very subtle nudge-nudge, wink-wink.
The kickback is obvious, and we do not even know who benefited from the $140,000 pocketed by organizer Gilles Varin.
Will the minister tell us who in the Conservative government had their palms greased?