Edited
Hansard • Number 203
Tuesday, June 11, 2002
Mr. Garry Breitkreuz (Yorkton—Melville, Canadian Alliance): Mr. Speaker, ethics are so simple when one knows the difference between right and wrong. No matter how many volumes of rules the Prime Minister writes, they will not make the Liberal government more ethical, honest or transparent.
Only the Prime Minister needs ethical guidelines to remind him not to call the heads of crown corporations about loans to companies in which he may still have a financial interest.
Only his previous public works ministers need ethical guidelines to remind them that it was wrong to provide millions of dollars in contracts to friends of the Liberal Party or that it was wrong to stay in the president's chalet.
Only the solicitor general needs ethical guidelines to remind him that he should not tell the commissioner of the RCMP to revisit a decision he had made months previous about funding for a college headed by his brother.
Canadians do not need new ethical guidelines for their government in Ottawa. We just need a government that knows the difference between right and wrong.