Mr. Speaker, those who travel with the parliamentary associations are not paying their own way. The taxpayers are paying their way.
One final supplementary question for the Minister of Finance, still on the theme of business as usual.
It is reported that a poll commissioned by the human resources department cost $250,000. Would the Minister of Finance in his efforts to trim the deficit, as I know he is concerned, investigate whether this was the lowest bid the department of human resources received or whether the most competitive bid which was recommended by the department was passed over by the minister in favour of his hometown pollster?