Supply   to the House today. It is very important. Throughout this country, we as politicians and members of parliament are held in low esteem regardless of this boondoggle. We need moral leadership that encourages people not only to become members of parliament but to run for elected office at all

Supply   for investment. It is a real shame that this $1 billion or more boondoggle seems to be endemic and systemic in the government. It is money that could well be used in other areas. When we have had significant cuts in health and post-secondary education and we have not had the kind of support

Human Resources Development   office. As the latest billion dollar boondoggle glaringly shows, when the Liberals get our money they abuse it, misuse it and lose it.

Supply   than fulfilling those dreams, we have unfortunately come back to the House in the new millennium confronted with the biggest boondoggle yet. This billion dollar boondoggle shows us that maybe every federal department is being mismanaged. It seems to be a systemic problem. With only

Supply   of these 37 so-called boondoggles, or billion dollar mess-ups that the opposition likes to say, I would like to explain to people exactly what the one is in my riding. The Fanshawe College, with the help of Human Resources Development Canada, got a grant of $19,800 to promote summer

Human Resources Development   of her officials has she moved, suspended or fired as a result of this boondoggle.

Human Resources Development   dollar boondoggle. That is something that—

Committees Of The House   of financial monitoring and 87% of files showed no sign of supervision. These grant applications represent a billion dollars. A lot of people are rightly referring to this as the billion dollar boondoggle or bungle. It is atrocious. I do not think anybody who is alive today can remember

Committees Of The House  Mr. Speaker, we heard the member's very eloquent 20 minute speech regarding the problems in HRDC and the billion dollar boondoggle. I think it is much deeper than that. In my few years sitting here as a member of parliament I have witnessed exactly the same thing within

Shipbuilding Act, 1999   of their loans; This is what we are asking the government for. Mere peanuts. It is only peanuts compared to the $1 billion boondoggle. I hope that, this time, the government will understand something must be done. Going back to our shipyard in Les Méchins, I invite anyone who has never been

Justice  Mr. Speaker, if Canadians think that the one billion dollar boondoggle at human resources smacks of political payoff, they should also know that questionable use of taxpayers' resources by way of grants is not exclusive to HRDC. At a time when the RCMP has faced budgetary

Human Resources Development   in this boondoggle, or is he just afraid that he is going to kill the goose that lays the golden egg? Which is it?

Human Resources Development   the $600,000 to Shawinigan crony Pierre Thibault who was a confessed embezzler. That is just the tip of the iceberg. Is not the real reason he is trying to dodge this boondoggle that his fingerprints are all over it?

Canada Elections Act   of the needs of Canadians. Nobody will dispute that Canada has one of the strongest democracies in the world, so it begs the question, why are we doing this in such an undemocratic fashion? The crisis in health care, the HRDC boondoggle, high taxes; these are all issues that need

Canada Elections Act   once again failed to respond to the wishes of Canadians. What a great way to start the new millennium, along with the billion dollar HRDC boondoggle. The government has wasted an opportunity to modernize and democratize the elections act. The amendments we are debating today