Mr. Speaker, ministers and their staff are legally obligated to report any time they are lobbied. In a huge loophole, apparently parliamentary secretaries are not.
So, the Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities delegated authority to review projects to his PS, someone who does not report his interactions with lobbyists, not even a meeting with an unregistered lobbyist who is past chair of the Conservative caucus, husband of a cabinet minister, and was trolling for government cash.
Accountability is not the title of a bill that the government passed and ignored. It is the actions taken right here.
Will the government turn over these proposals? Will it come clean? Will it tell us who it was lobbied by and when?