Pearson Airport  I again ask the minister, is it just another $97.6 million, or how much will we have to pay next year to cover this Liberal boondoggle?

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act  However, the party across the way and the government have both been responsible for the boondoggle that has happened with regard to the CPP. The way they set it up was intrinsically flawed. It was set up as a pay as you go system rather than somebody's individual earnings and payments going into the plan to look after them in their retirement.

Budget Implementation Act, 1997  It is not by having the government spend money to create short term jobs, as it did with the infrastructure boondoggle where the auditor general calculated that each job created cost us something like $75,000. What a terrible waste of taxpayer money. We could have used that infrastructure money to help pay down the debt.

Department Of Canadian Heritage Act  The priorities are health, pensions and the best education for our next generation. It is not the boondoggles that we see time after time in the Canadian heritage department. I am disappointed to find that in this reorganization plan there is not a bottom line that reads: "This department will be severely curtailed".

Department Of Natural Resources Act  Why would this government not sell off this national oil company while the industry is strong and recoup some of those billions of taxpayers' dollars that were used to create this Liberal boondoggle? Why not use this opportunity when we are supposed to be downsizing and streamlining government to do something really significant and use revenue from the sale of Petro-Canada to reduce Canada's debt burden?

Firearms Sunset Act  The constitutionality of Bill C-68 is being challenged in court by four provinces and two territories. They are also opting out of the unreasonable burden of administering this federal boondoggle. My bill will be supported by people and politicians in these provinces. Bill C-68 will guarantee that gun controls are both costly and ineffective, whereas my bill will guarantee that every gun control law has to be both successful and cost effective in saving lives and reducing the criminal use of firearms.

Taxation  I am sure that was very vital spending. Why does the minister squander tax dollars on these boondoggles while families, seniors and low income Canadians desperately need tax relief? And could I have the answer without the waving of the arms and the aneurysm?

Employment  Despite recognition earlier this year that infrastructure and other make work programs failed to create real jobs, the Prime Minister stood up in front of his Liberal cronies this weekend and promised to return to this boondoggle form of governance. Can the Prime Minister tell Canadians why now he is talking about spending any future budget surplus on bloating the size of government rather than giving consumers and job creators the tax relief they need to create the real jobs that people are demanding?

Canada Elections Act  The way it stands now, short of murder or a serious criminal offence, there is no way a member of Parliament can lose his or her job. We have seen all kinds of boondoggles over the years. We have seen ex-MPs being charged with accepting graft or some other odious crime. A lot of that was known when they were office holders but there was no way for the constituents to get at that person and say: "You are not doing your job.

Yukon Quartz Mining Act  As a career mining man myself, I want to assure my hon. colleagues that the biggest reason why Canada has been losing its market share of international mining investment dollars is the regulatory boondoggles such as those just imposed on the BHP diamond project by the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. At this point the damage has been done. It is my profound hope that the minister will act far differently regarding Yukon mining and that Bill C-6 will not become another serious blow to mining in Canada.

Taxation  When will the minister admit and recognize that taxes, taxes, taxes kill jobs, jobs, jobs? When will the government get rid of this boondoggle?

Supply  A $6 billion waste of money. A boondoggle.

Supply  Mr. Speaker, I am glad the hon. member opposite said it is a boondoggle and a $6 billion waste of taxpayer money. Municipalities all across the country, from the urban centres of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver to villages and towns, have all benefited from the national infrastructure program.

Income Tax Budget Amendment Act  The theory was that the people employed by this wonderful $6 billion program, although it turned out to be a big boondoggle, would spend the money in their communities, boost consumption and then the good old days of full employment would come back. However, anyone with business knowledge knew the plan could not work from day one.

Foreign Affairs  Nor do relations with China require our Export Development Corporation to provide financial assistance for the Three Gorges project, a grandiose boondoggle which will displace 1.25 million people.