Mr. Speaker, my question is for the right hon. Prime Minister.
When natural disasters hit--and I am not talking about the political disaster for the Bloc in Quebec--like the Saguenay, Manitoba and the ice storm, governments respond.
The average response time in those cases was eight days. We are 40 days and 40 nights into the SARS crisis and not one red cent of government money has gone to help workers, families and businesses in Toronto.
How can the Prime Minister sit on a $14.8 billion surplus--