Mr. Speaker, I will take this as a factual admission, not necessarily a verbal admission.
The member's defence of this man is rather pathetic.
The Conservatives appointed Mr. Porter to head the Security Intelligence Review Committee in 2008, and he resigned in 2011.
During that time, he contributed generously to the Conservative Party's election fund and did business with SNC-Lavalin and its former executives, Pierre Duhaime and Riadh Ben Aissa.
What do all those people have in common? They have all been charged with fraud, corruption and misappropriation of funds in multiple scandals.
Despite all of those revelations, Mr. Porter is still a member of the Privy Council. Why?