Mr. Speaker, yesterday we learned from the Office of the Comptroller General that the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency has violated almost every rule in only two years of existence: expenditure control, contract management, use of credit cards, travel and hospitality expenses for its guests and all the rest.
Instead of helping northerners, the government is breaking all the rules of financial management.
How can the Prime Minister, who was the one who announced the creation of the agency in 2009, justify such a fiasco?