Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There are several questions here, but I think in the end this boils down to one very fundamental question, and I guess that is whether or not the government violated the FAA. I think if you look at the letter of the legislation, Mr. Speaker, you can clearly make a case that they did not violate, technically, the letter of the law; but I certainly feel that they violated the intent.

I think the intent is there to protect Members' constituencies and the people in those constituencies that we serve. I certainly understand Mr. Krutko's frustration.

I think one thing is clear for me, Mr. Speaker, and that is that we never needed to get to this point. I think that when Mr. Krutko raised the issue at the beginning of this session, initially he was told, "Well, you were wrong. Nothing moved from any constituency to another, so essentially, you are out of line here." Then the Minister went back and checked and, in fact, Mr. Krutko was correct and a project had been deferred in one constituency and did take place in another.

Further to that, he was then told, "Well, in any case, there was no violation of the Financial Administration Act, so we did not have to tell you, but we have sent you a letter."

I think the attitude here was more the thing that irked the Member. I probably think the Financial Administration Act was not violated, but I think principles of good judgement and courtesy to Members were violated by the department. I certainly understand why Mr. Krutko has raised this issue.

I think we have to be very careful here with the consensus process that we hold dear, because I think it has the possibility of being on its last legs if we see more of these kinds of things.

That would be unfortunate, because I think it really comes down to the amount of effort that Ministers are willing to put into the job that they do. It would not have taken much for Mr. Steen to contact Mr. Krutko's office and clear this up, give him some heads-up so that he would be able to inform his constituents. I think that would have been the courteous and the correct thing to do. I am disappointed that it was not done in this case.

Unfortunately, since I do not technically think the Financial Administration Act was violated, I cannot support the motion. However, I do believe the government violated principles of good judgement and courtesy to Members. Thank you.