Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I do not make it a habit of responding immediately to Members' statements, but I listened with interest today to the statements made by Mr. Picco, Mr. O'Brien and Mrs. Groenewegen and in some way I was expecting those statements, the effort to keep the momentum and go out for more blood, et cetera. I did get word in Edmonton that this was going to be the next plan, but I did want to make some comments on what appears to be being said and maybe we could clarify the record a little bit.

The conflict report recommends that the Member for Tu Nedhe be reprimanded for providing documents which he knew to be untrue or to contain untruth. One of those documents is document 246, a note signed by four Ministers of Cabinet, including myself. Mr. Speaker, there has been much talk about this note. I understand that some of the spin being put on document 246, is that its signatory not only signed a false document, that would include me. I wanted to set the record straight. When I testified at the inquiry, I told the truth. The document I signed could have been more accurate, as I said in the inquiry. If I had to do it over today, I would have changed the document to imply to simply say that Mr. Morin did not attend the Cabinet meeting when the item was discussed. This is the same thing that Mr. Todd said under oath.