Mr. Speaker, my friend from Manitoba understands very well and has rightfully pointed out how the member from Winnipeg North is covering up the corruption. What we have is not Conservative accusations, but the fact that the Auditor General, an independent officer of Parliament, has found egregious mismanagement to the tune of 390 million dollars' worth of contracts given inappropriately.
Conservatives did not do the audit. The Conservatives have demanded that the audit be done. We saw the inconsistencies and how the chair of the fund was getting these contracts and whatnot, so we called in the auditors. The good thing about the Auditor General is that they take politics out of it. The Liberals may not like what the Auditor General found, but the fact is that the Auditor General found that $390 million was mismanaged and went to Liberal insiders.
Whistle-blowers, in testimony, made it evidently clear that there were activities that would not pass the smell test. They went on to say that the Auditor General surely would find that the mismanagement was true. One whistle-blower suggested that it was a sponsorship scandal era type of scandal when it comes to mismanagement. I would like to quote one whistle-blower, who told the public accounts committee:
Just as I was always confident that the Auditor General would confirm the financial mismanagement at SDTC, I remain equally confident that the RCMP will substantiate the criminal activities that occurred within the organization.
Those are not my words; those are the words of a whistle-blower from within SDTC. That is what the Liberals are trying to cover up.