Michel Guimond

[Prime Minister, April 25th, 2001]

Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Minister of Industry made the statement that the lease between the Auberge Grand-Mère and the golf club was a forgery. He has now had 24 hours to verify that the lease is genuine.

How can the government justify the letter sent by the Prime Minister to the Conservative leader with statements to the effect that there was no connection whatsoever between the auberge and the golf club and that, on the contrary, they were competitors, whereas once again the lease proves exactly the opposite?

[Supply, April 24th, 2001]

Mr. Speaker, I rise a point of order. I would not want you to interpret my point of order as a desire to challenge your authority, but it is aimed at allowing our colleague of Rosemont—Petite-Patrie to make a speech in minimum conditions.

Could you maintain order in the House or suspend the sitting for a few minutes, because it is impossible for us, even in the front row, to hear what my colleague of Rosemont—Petite-Patrie is saying?

[Prime Minister, April 24th, 2001]

Mr. Speaker, I believe the Minister for Industry is referring to the wrong thing. We are not talking of the National Post documents but of a lease.

In the Shawinigan property registry there is nothing to indicate that the ten year lease has been cancelled. This means, therefore, that there was a financial connection between the auberge and the golf course when the Prime Minister approached the Business Development Bank of Canada.

Is the Prime Minister going to at last acknowledge that he was in a flagrant conflict of interest situation when he intervened with the bank?

[Prime Minister, April 24th, 2001]

Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has said in this House that there was no connection between the Grand-Mère golf course and the Auberge Grand-Mère, and that they were instead competitors. He even wrote this to the leader of the Conservatives. However once again new documents have come along to undermine the Prime Minister's credibility.

How can the Prime Minister make such statements when a ten year lease dated 1988 indicates a financial connection between the golf course and the Auberge Grand-Mère?

[Supply, April 24th, 2001]

Madam Speaker, I would like to inform you, and our excellent clerks at the table, that for the duration of the allotted day, that is until private members' business, the members of the Bloc Quebecois will be dividing their time into two ten-minute speeches.

[Division No. 75, April 23rd, 2001]

The Bloc members will vote yes on the motion, including the members for Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert and Berthier—Montcalm.

[Ways And Means, April 23rd, 2001]

Mr. Speaker, the Bloc members will vote yes on the motion, except for the member for Berthier—Montcalm, who withdrew from the vote, and the member for Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert.

[Budget Implementation Act, April 23rd, 2001]

Mr. Speaker, Bloc Quebecois members vote no on this motion.

[Division No. 70, April 23rd, 2001]

Mr. Speaker, Bloc Quebecois members vote yes on this motion.

[Prime Minister, April 23rd, 2001]

Mr. Speaker, the question remains in its entirety and we have to know.

Did Yvon Duhaime owe $23,000 to the Prime Minister when the Prime Minister intervened in support of the Auberge Grand-Mère with the Business Development Bank of Canada? Yes or no.