Mr. Speaker, the member for Winnipeg North has clearly not followed all of the facts on this. The member does not clearly understand that a whistle-blower went to the minister's department. For 40 months, while the current minister was sitting in his office, he had an ADM at every meeting at which 82% of the transactions were conflicted. After a whistle-blower was going to the department over three months and became frustrated, as nothing was happening with the minister, that whistle-blower went public, and this appeared in the media. Then, all of a sudden, the minister realized that there was something going on in his department and that he should be doing something.
It is a total falsehood to claim that the minister and the government did anything. They did not do anything until it was out in the public. I would like the member to comment on that.