Mr. Speaker, I just love it that the minister raised the question of my favourite subject.
The government has been quite willing to cancel contracts including those with Andersen Consulting, Micronav International, and, yes, the Pearson airport contract.
Hughes Aircraft has only delivered a meagre 10 per cent of its promised contract. Now it states that it cannot meet the original terms of the deal and will only produce a scaled down version of the air traffic control system if it gets more public money.
I have a supplementary question. Why will the government not cancel the Hughes contract immediately? Not one more cent of Canadian money should be wasted.