Mr. Speaker, auditors report that 130 valuable indigenous artworks have vanished from a federal collection overseen by the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations. Security was so weak that the theft went undetected. The department has no plan to recover the missing art, yet it continues to buy new pieces.
The entire collection is worth over $14 million and includes cultural treasures.
Could the minister explain this blatant mismanagement and why the Liberal plan is just to spend more money and to ignore the crime?