Mr. Chairman, I have been following with interest, as have some of my colleagues, the issue that my colleague from Deh Cho raised about the Hay River group home contract. I want to make reference to the Minister's statement first, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Chairman, when Mr. Gargan raised this issue, he specifically asked the Minister if she was prepared to strike an independent committee to investigate these allegations, as was requested by Greenway, subsequent to the their contract being terminated by her department. The Minister replied yes. But, the Minister made a statement today, Mr. Chairman, that doesn't reflect the request of my colleague from Deh Cho.
The Minister has indicated that she agreed to conduct an independent investigation. But that wasn't the request. We asked for an independent committee to do the investigation. In the Minister's statement, the Minister has appointed an investigator, one person, to undertake this work. Now, before I go on, Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask why the Minister has gone with this investigator rather than an independent committee to do the investigation.