Foreign Publishers Advertising Services Act   the symphony orchestra. We have to decide that ourselves. If we do not decide for ourselves it will be decided for us by bureaucrats, which is how we got programs like Bubbles Galore and all of the other boondoggles we hear about. I say to my friend again, until we can reconcile

Supply   of a different story when it comes to farm credit, that old boondoggle that was created federally years ago. They have been a little more hardhearted when it comes to tossing farmers off their ground. This mess is compounded in Saskatchewan because our input costs have gone up

Prisons  Mr. Speaker, 70% of the solicitor general's corrections staff said that his drug strategy was a failure. The only thing that he is doing is padding his own constituency with this $2.5 million boondoggle. Why will the minister continue in this way? Why does he arm himself only

Health Care   if we had not wasted that $1 billion on a boondoggle?

Human Resources Development   from Shawinigan has become the billion dollar boondoggle in human resources. Why does the Prime Minister not start accepting responsibility for this gross misuse of taxpayers' money and fire the Minister of Human Resources Development?

Human Resources Development  Mr. Speaker, we have just seen a classic example of the old bait and switch technique: Instead of answering to the issue, you try to pretend the issue is something different. The issue is a billion dollar boondoggle involving public money. This minister has not proven

Human Resources Development  Mr. Speaker, as usual, the Prime Minister has attempted to downplay the problems at Human Resources Development Canada by reducing the boondoggle to 37 cases. Does the Prime Minister still persist today in claiming that the scandalous mismanagement at HRDC is limited

Committees Of The House   of November last year. Had we given a sense to that report at that time we probably would have avoided what has now become the billion dollar boondoggle. The recommendations that were made by the public accounts committee should be acted upon on behalf of the taxpayers of Canada. We need

Committees Of The House  I appreciate the indulgence of my colleagues, since I believe these issues are very important. They certainly are these days as we listen to the big questions on the billion dollar boondoggle. I will now talk a little bit on why I am moving concurrence in this report

Committees Of The House   and evaluating whether those objectives are being met. We need to ensure that the people in Quebec as in the rest of Canada, the taxpayers who part with their hard-earned money, know for certain that their money is not being misused, abused and boondoggled.

Supply   there is no example of financial accountability, responsibility or integrity at the top, the fish rots from the head down. Now the little scandal in Shawinigan has mushroomed into a billion dollar boondoggle at human resources. The Prime Minister refuses to enforce the principle of ministerial

Supply  Mr. Speaker, I agree with the hon. member that the responsibility for this boondoggle does not stop with the current minister. It does go back to the previous minister of human resources. I would argue that it even goes back to the minister for human resources before that, who

Supply   Resources Development. I believe the one billion dollars lost in the departmental boondoggle, money belonging to the workers and to the unemployed who also made contributions, is too much. Yesterday, during oral question period, many members of all opposition parties called

Supply   students who were touring our precinct. They were quite astounded when I gave them the facts because what they had read about this supposed boondoggle were headlines screaming “A billion dollar boondoggle”. I explained to them, and they are obviously more intelligent than some of my hon

Supply   the same person, the Prime Minister. Does he not have the primary responsibility for this boondoggle?