Mr. Speaker, as the National Hockey League regular season remains on hold flooding continues to occur in Calgary Centre.
Unfortunately that flooding is not taking place on the ice in the Olympic Saddledome but in the worn out storm sewers of northwest Calgary. Recently Calgary residents had their homes flooded out for the third time this year while the $8 million infrastructure renovations to the run down, obsolete, dilapidated Saddledome continue without interruption.
This government defined infrastructure as physical assets instrumental in the provision of public services, not private. By the government's own definition this is not infrastructure money but a direct subsidy to private business.
I question the government's sense of priorities when the needs of the sports world outweigh those of the real world.
The only thing that is obsolete and dilapidated in Calgary is not the 10-year old Saddledome but the pork-barrel policies of this Liberal government.
Lest it forget, the debt today is $535,538,939,082.82.