Mr. Speaker, once again I have been informed to be careful about how we talk about the east. I thought I opened this up with the Western Economic Diversification Board, Quebec and ACOA. The facts are that a lot of the dollars given out as grants in all three of these all across the country are not serving the purpose for which they started out, the concept which I described earlier.
Please, let us not get into being careful how we talk about Atlantic Canada, or Quebec, or western Canada. It is the concept that we have to look at, the larger picture of economic development in this country. Is the money better off in the hands of the taxpayer or in the hands of the politicians?