Avant d'entamer notre tour de questions et d'atténuer quelque peu la sévérité de certains de vos commentaires, je signale que les ministres ont reconnu hier, lorsqu'ils ont témoigné devant nous, que le sujet a incontestablement de fortes résonnances politiques et qu'il s'agit d'une situation politique qui est entre les mains de politiciens. D'après le ministre Collenette, il serait hypocrite de prétendre le contraire.
Before we begin our round of questions, and to mitigate possibly some of what you've observed and relayed to us, the ministers in fact, as early as yesterday when they appeared before us, did admit that the issue is most certainly politically charged and that they are politicians dealing with this situation, a political situation being dealt with by politicians, and to believe or say anything else, according to Minister Collenette, would be hypocritical.
