Mr. Speaker, Conservatives are once again ducking accountability at ACOA.
The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency will no longer prepare reports on regional disparity, hiding any negative impact of eliminating the Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation.
Conservatives also used their monster budget bill to scrap ACOA's board. The board had guaranteed regional representation and could have been fixed, because it is broken, to provide proper oversight.
The real problem at ACOA is obvious: rampant Conservative patronage.
Why is the government mismanaging ACOA and reducing oversight even further?