Missing
Groupaction Report
Tuesday March, 12, 2002
Mr. Bill Blaikie (Winnipeg--Transcona, NDP): Mr.
Speaker, my question is for the right hon. Prime Minister. I am sure the Prime
Minister will want to comment on this before he goes off to Washington.
Is the Prime Minister himself not concerned about
the unavailability of this report, a report that the Canadian taxpayers paid
for and which is now unavailable? Could he tell us whether or not he is
concerned about this? If he is, what does he intend to do about it, short of
ordering a search of the miscellaneous files of the Canadian embassy in
Copenhagen?
Hon. Don Boudria (Minister of Public Works and
Government Services, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, I have already indicated to a
colleague of the hon. House leader for the New Democratic Party in committee
this morning that the report, although unavailable--and I have denounced that
and have said that in the House both yesterday and this morning in
committee--in fact was commissioned, that interim payments were made pursuant
to the Financial Administration Act, that a senior civil servant signed for
both the interim payments, and that the same senior civil servant said both in
media reports and to my own officials that he had received the document in
question.
I do have in hand and am ready to table the
supporting documentation even though the report itself has not yet been made
available to me.
