Madam Speaker, I would like to know what my colleague thinks about the foundation format itself. We are talking here about a foundation that seems to have engaged in wrongdoing. We are asking the government for documents and the government is refusing to comply, which is why the question of privilege was raised.
When the Liberal government created 15 or so foundations in the late 1990s, the then auditor general, Sheila Fraser, quickly issued a scathing report. In this report, she urged caution, because a lot of taxpayer money was being paid out without proper oversight. The format itself was problematic.
Would it not be better to abolish these foundations so as to prevent this kind of problem from happening again?