Grants and Contributions

Monday March 11, 2002

    Mr. Bill Blaikie (Winnipeg--Transcona, NDP): Mr. Speaker, I would like to go back to what the Minister of Public Works and Government Services said about Groupaction Marketing.

    It is not enough, frankly, to say that the final report is not available. The minister has an obligation to tell us why the final report is not available. Where is it? Who is responsible for the fact that it is not available and who is being held accountable? Or is the minister looking in his vast repertoire of binders hoping it might have been misplaced there at some point?

    Hon. Don Boudria (Minister of Public Works and Government Services, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, I will take the last remark as a compliment to the fact that I have several briefing notes and excellent people preparing them.

    However, to answer the hon. member's question, I indicated to the House in answer to two other questions that even though the report is, as I said three years old, it should still be available today. I do not have the final document at the present time.