Mr. Speaker, I welcome this opportunity to speak on the subject of the appropriation of certain votes, and especially the $26.9 million allocated to the Senate for the 1994-95 fiscal year. I think it is high time this government realized that sound government management starts with more prudent and especially more efficient management of taxpayers' money.
I think it is useless to allocate $26.9 million to the Senate for program spending, an amount that will be added to the $15 million it will receive directly in the course of the current fiscal year and to another $12 million in services provided by various federal departments and agencies to maintain an institution that has absolutely no connection with how a modern democracy operates.