Mr. Speaker, the objective of awarding 5% of federal contracts to businesses owned by first nations is obviously commendable from the perspective of reconciliation. However, we realized that 1,100 businesses had been delisted because the Liberal government had done a poor job of designing the list, but also because people are trying to defraud the system and misappropriate funds when they do not represent first nations-owned businesses. The example comes from high up, since a former Liberal minister, the member for Edmonton Centre, is at the centre of a controversy because he falsely claimed that he and his business were indigenous in order to get federal contracts from his own government.
Does my colleague not think that is totally outrageous?