Mr. Speaker, I would like to explain something to the hon. member from the Reform Party. Our party is asking for a special committee to examine public expenditures while the minister is worried about duplication since there already is a public accounts committee. I understand his question, but the committee on public accounts is responsible for assessing the legality of public expenditures. Did the government respect this or that enabling act in incurring expenditures? A committee or commission, whatever we want to call it, as proposed by my party, would look at the morality of certain public expenditures.
Some embassies have paid $490 for waste containers; it is certainly not illegal to buy waste containers but the $490 price tag is questionable. That is why we want to strike this committee, to get the Canadian budget in better shape.