Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So, a public report released by the Auditor General refers to Senator Cochrane, not to mention any names, who, on top of her $60,000 salary, as I was saying earlier, and her expense allowance of $9,000, cost Canadian taxpayers $35,000 in travelling expenses and $49,000 in office-related costs. Canada does have its own museum of horrors and its own villains in that museum.
In the minute I have left, I want to point out how absurd it is, in a democratic system, to have a house of non-elected members with decision-making power. Canadian dignitaries who are so proud of their democracy have no lesson to teach to other countries. When will they abolish that House which costs Quebecers and Canadians $43 million every year, even though it is ineffective and non-democratic?
We are in the midst of an economic crisis and our debt increases by thousands of dollars every minute. The federal government cannot continue to waste public money on a useless institution.