Mr. Speaker, that is a great question. Two whistle-blowers, in fact, have been very brave individuals who came forward to expose this. A year and a half ago they got absolutely no response from the industry minister but did get a response from the CFO's department saying this was huge. The minister did nothing until it was public. That minister, the current minister, had a senior assistant deputy minister in every single board meeting, where 82% of the time they were voting for money for their own companies.
It is beyond credulity, beyond believability, that the minister claims, in a Hogan's Heroes Sergeant Schultz sort of way, “I know nothing”. He had a senior official in every meeting. That official is obligated to report to the deputy minister and the minister. I do not believe the minister knew nothing. I believe the minister was incompetent and enjoyed the featherbedding of his Quebec colleagues on the board.