John Manley

[The Media, June 18th, 2002]

Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister had nothing to do with decisions made by the CanWest Global management with respect to management of the Ottawa

Citizen.

[Ethics, June 17th, 2002]

Mr. Speaker, I welcome the hon. member to the British parliamentary system in which the Prime Minister has responsibility for the conduct of his ministers.

I also encourage him to review the guidelines so that he considers advocating within his own party a level of transparency that would be similar. When some of his party's members state that their positions on Kyoto are going to help their fundraising abilities, then we know that the people who give their leader money have influence over his positions.

[Ethics, June 17th, 2002]

Mr. Speaker, the guidelines ensure a high degree of transparency and ensure that the public will be aware of who has been raising money from whom. This stands in stark contrast to the rules of the Alliance Party.

Do you know what the Alliance rules are, Mr. Speaker? There are none. Where did the Leader of the Opposition get his money? We do not know. How much did he get? We do not know.

I suggest the Alliance may want to look at the rules the Prime Minister has put out and consider adopting them.

[The Media, June 17th, 2002]

Mr. Speaker, I am not aware of the Prime Minister having had any meetings. In any event, decisions about internal matters in an organization like CanWest Global are taken by the corporation itself. It answers for them in the courts and elsewhere. Those decisions have nothing to do with the administration of the government.

[The Media, June 17th, 2002]

Mr. Speaker, the member has made a series of allegations that are completely without base. I have no idea whether the Prime Minister had an opinion on how Russell Mills did his job. Clearly Mr. Mills had an opinion on the Prime Minister. I suspect their opinions would have about the same amount of weight in terms of whether or not the other holds his job.

[Infrastructure, June 13th, 2002]

Mr. Speaker, I am sorry if I have been the cause of the hon. member's confusion. However, when all the rules for the program are ready and have been adopted by cabinet, I will be announcing them.

We will then start discussions with the other government levels concerning the projects to be included in phase one of this program.

[Government Contracts, June 13th, 2002]

And they all yak, yak, yak while I answer.

They get up day after day, throwing mud, making allegations, unsubstantiated allegations. They will not make them outside where they are not safe, with the legal protections of parliamentary privilege. Yesterday we caught them dead to rights making allegations that were totally wrong, and today they will not even get up and say that one was wrong. That is the measure of their integrity.

[Government Contracts, June 13th, 2002]

Mr. Speaker, I think the people of Canada are just getting a little tired of hearing these people get up, and a whole bunch of them do it--

[Government Contracts, June 13th, 2002]

Mr. Speaker, here we go again, throwing mud, unsubstantiated allegations, smear campaigns. Yesterday they got up and accused the government of misusing Harrington Lake. We have demonstrated the falsehood of that allegation.

Do we hear a word of apology? Do we see any contrition? No, because these people are in the scandal-mongering business. Questions like that are not worthy of a response.

[Ethics, June 13th, 2002]

Mr. Speaker, obviously there are particular challenges every time a person enters parliament with private interests. These need to be dealt with in accordance with rules that are well understood and are well documented. The procedures need to be followed very carefully.

In this case I am sure that if the hon. member has the decency to look at the facts, something they did not do on the question of Harrington Lake, she will find that the ministry acted in accordance with all standards for ministers.