Mr. Speaker, politicizing bureaucrats is bad enough, but now we learn the government was deceiving Canadians about the fake citizenship ceremony. The whole mess began when the minister ordered bureaucrats to stage the event, ignoring their advice to simply film an existing ceremony.
It now turns out that the minister's line that bureaucrats deceived the network was not true, and they knew all along these were not real new citizens.
Why did the minister deceive Canadians and try to make public servants take the blame for this fiasco?