Mr. Speaker, my colleague brings up an excellent question about ministerial responsibility. He asks how we could fix this. I think that the government could fix it by actually promoting competent people into ministerial roles. At the public accounts committee, we once heard one of the senior Liberals state that ministers are not responsible for their own departments. They actually stated this.
Last week, at the government operations committee, the President of the Treasury Board was being asked questions, and his answer was that if one wants an answer, one needs to ask his official, and to not ask him. That is the Liberal version of ministerial responsibility, and it is a joke.