Mr. Chair, I guess her second refusal to answer that direct question confirms that she did not attend those critical meetings. It confirms the veracity of the report that she was threatened with removal from the cabinet operations committee for incompetence and non-performance of her duties, contempt of which is compounded by her refusal to answer questions here tonight.
I would like to ask the Minister of Canadian Heritage about her decision to contract out Canada's foreign policy to her friend, the representative of the heritage ministry of the Government of Quebec.
A report on September 24 of this year with the headline, “Province can speak for Canada, Frulla says: Perfect marriage, if not a bit of incest” quotes the minister as saying, speaking of the minister of heritage for Quebec, that she “can speak for both of us very well”. The minister said that Quebec and Ottawa have been speaking with “the same voice on cultural issues for a while”, describing the relationship between the two governments as “a perfect marriage, if not a bit of incest”.
Are these quotes attributed to the minister accurate? Why would she imply that a provincial government could speak for Canada?