Thank you, Madam Speaker, honourable Members. Madam Speaker, as I understand it, the Arctic Winter Games International Committee felt that Inuvik would have trouble because of the size of the games. Has this government provided political direction to the directors from the NWT to suggest that the size of the games needed to be reduced? In fact, I think the government supported expansion of the games to include Alberta, Greenland and the Soviet republics. I haven't heard this government suggest that senior sports be eliminated from the games, or that the number of sports should be reduced.
Madam Speaker, the Minister of MACA should have accepted the responsibility that goes with the job when you accept a position on Cabinet, and not have tried to shift the blame by having a deputy minister ask Mr. Cooper and Mr. Legaree to resign. That was a corrupt use of government power.