Mr. Speaker, we are not the party of fake lakes. That is that party.
The Auditor General herself said that the advance contract award notices were not a competitive process and that, in fact, they amounted to sole source contracts.
There are lingering questions from the last time the government used this scheme to avoid public tender. It is still not clear that it got very good value for money. Wasted money means less money for the navy, less money for search and rescue and less money for peacekeeping.
Why will the Conservatives not take government spending more seriously?