Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Canadians are reeling with shock and horror at how anyone in good conscience could spend $1.3 billion for a three-day meeting. That's the feedback we're getting from our communities, because no matter how you shake it up, it has all the appearances of wild, irresponsible, reckless spending, in light of the largest deficit Canada's ever faced.
Specifically, whose bright idea was it to build a fake lake on the shores of a real lake? How did we ever arrive at that idea, and who was pushing for that?