Angry in the Great White North

Looks like Liberal MP David Smith, representing the riding of Pontiac, might get a reprieve from his troubles. From Hansard:

Mr. Pierre Poilievre (Nepean-Carleton, CPC): Mr. Speaker, The Globe and Mail is reporting today that KPMG had found irregularities in the activities of the firm run by the family of the MP for Pontiac.

Does the Minister of Public Works-

The Speaker: An answer has already been provided by the Leader of the Government on the House of Commons, saying that the member for Pontiac had referred the matter to the ethics commissioner. I suggest that the hon. member refer to subsection 27(5) of Appendix 1 to the Standing Orders.

Once a request for an inquiry has been made to the Ethics Commissioner, Members should respect the process established by this Code and permit it to take place without commenting further on the matter.

The hon. member may ask another question, but not on the same matter.

Mr. Pierre Poilievre (Nepean-Carleton, CPC): Mr. Speaker, my question is more generally pertaining to Liberal fat and Liberal corruption, then. KPMG did an additional audit on approximately $16 million worth of additional contracts that were handed out and it found serious irregularities in that amount of money.

We already know that some of this money went directly to Liberal friends and Liberal cronies, some of whom sit in the House of Commons now. How much went to Liberal friends and Liberal-

Some hon. members: Oh, oh!

The Speaker: I think we will move on to the next question.

The hon. member for Wellington-Halton Hills.

So it looks like mum's the word. Of course, the rules don't apply to you and me, and we can continue to explore what David Smith and Abotech were really all about.

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