Mr. Speaker, I am sure that as a nation we spend a whole lot more than $15 million for tourism. Perhaps we should be looking at how we go about spending the collective money. All the provinces have separate tourism budgets. The federal government has a separate tourism budget. Air Canada and Canadian have separate budgets to try to get people to use their airlines to come to Canada.
The hon. member may have a point. If we get a better return on our investment by getting people to come to Canada, then that is certainly where we should be spending our money and perhaps we should not be spending our money supporting a business that would not be in business if the government was not supporting it financially. It is a matter of setting priorities, of where we can get the best bang for our buck and then sticking to it.
Perhaps we should be spending more money encouraging people to vacation in Canada going from one end of the country to the other so we can keep some of that money in Canada. Perhaps if our hon. friends from the Bloc spent more time in the rest of Canada and we spent more time in Quebec we would not have this problem in communicating with one another.