G8 Summit  Mr. Speaker, the Muskoka minister said that if he were caught setting up a parallel process that kept the Auditor General in the dark that he would turn himself over to the cops. Local mayors were told that all projects would be vetted by civil servants, but he broke

G8 Summit  Mr. Speaker, if the big game hunter on the backbenches is going to take down this scandal, he is going to have to put a little more ammunition in his pop gun. The facts are that since the Muskoka minister has to hide behind members like him to answer, I will do him a favour

G8 Summit  Mr. Speaker, the Muskoka minister said: If I was the decision maker, if I had set up a parallel process...and created a situation where the auditor-general did not know...I'd be resigning right now and turning myself into the local police office. However, the minister

G8 Summit  Mr. Speaker, yesterday, after 131 days of dodging accountability, the Muskoka minister finally peered up over his desk. He made a quick little joke and he went back into hibernation. However, he did not say “sorry”. He did not explain why he ran a slush fund from his office. He

G8 Summit  Mr. Speaker, it is now 130 days since the Muskoka minister took a dive on accountability of the G8 slush fund. We now know that Huntsville was green-lighted to blow $30 million in federal money without tenders. We now know that the Muskoka minister got a job for his buddy. We

G8 Summit  Mr. Speaker, let us be clear. It is the Muskoka minister who misled the Auditor General. After 119 days, he should explain himself. The Auditor General said, “We received a small amount of documentation which wasn't, frankly, relevant to the question”. The Auditor General also

President of the Treasury Board   ministers do not tell mayors to keep their mouths shut until they get their stories straight. Accountable ministers stand up in the House of Commons and explain themselves. The Prime Minister knew the ethical lapses of the Muskoka minister. Why did he put the minister in charge

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, I understand why the Minister of Foreign Affairs is changing the channel. It is because the guy beside him is a big political liability. Perhaps he will explain. Where was he when the rules were being broken by the Muskoka minister? Where was he when the Auditor

G8 Summit  , no viability study, no idea of costs or even a construction plan, yet he was willing to throw millions at a project that even the town did not want to have anything to do with. Why did the Muskoka minister use taxpayers' money to feather his own political bed? Would he stand in this House

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, on the subject of accountability, the Muskoka minister has brought a new innovation to Conservative cover-up. It is use of a personal email account to conduct government business. There is no need to worry about access to information. There is no need to worry about

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, it has been 113 days and still no response from the Muskoka minister--

G8 Summit  Mr. Speaker, we are now 112 days and counting and here is something new about the Muskoka boondoggle. When the mayor set out to buy steel for the hockey arena, even though it had not been approved by Parliament, the Muskoka minister did not tell him to wait. He wrote, “Hey

G8 Summit  Mr. Speaker, it is now 111 days since the Muskoka minister was put in the doghouse, and his handlers still cannot get their stories straight. They keep telling us that all the projects came in under budget, so let us talk about the Gravenhurst arena. The minister personally

G8 Summit  Mr. Speaker, it has been 110 days since the Muskoka minister was put in the doghouse, and is that the best the government can come up with? It is not just the minister's credibility on the line. It is the Prime Minister's, for promoting him and looking the other way when he

G8 Summit  Mr. Speaker, the Muskoka minister had many schemes for funnelling money into his riding under the pretext of the G8. One scheme involved building a massive hockey arena and then telling everybody it would be used as a media centre. When the OPP raised questions about this pet