Mr. Speaker, the minister calls it historic consultations; I call it deceptive consultations.
Either the minister is complicit in this charade or he does not know what is happening in his own department.
His own associate deputy minister, Erin O'Gorman, ordered her staff to give cabinet a sound legal argument for saying yes to Kinder Morgan, while public servants were assuring first nations representatives that a decision had not yet been made. I am not making this up. The media is not making this up. That is what it says in internal documents that were obtained through an access to information request.
Does the minister still dare to deny it?