Mr. Speaker, either the minister is telling the opposite of the truth, or he does not know what is going on in his own department.
Representatives from six organizations were present at a meeting on October 27, 2016, where his assistant deputy minister ordered her staff to give cabinet a legally sound basis for saying yes to Kinder Morgan's proposal. None of these organizations denied that these things were said.
On the contrary, a person who was at the meeting told the National Observer:
“I was rather shocked at being given that direction. It's not something that I would have expected from a Liberal government.”
Is the minister still denying it?