Mr. Speaker, they say this is not true but listen to what happened.
A month ago the member for St. John's West reportedly demanded of the town council of Placentia, Newfoundland that they had to sell their fire trucks as she told them to for $5,000 or she would make sure that they did not get a $350,000 ACOA grant. That was in the papers. That was her communication to the people.
In other words, it is all arm's length, it is all done on merit, it is all above board except that this Liberal says that you do as you are told. I am not making this up. It was in the paper. It is all true: "Either do as you are told or we will make sure doggone it you do not get the $350,000 grant".
Only two councillors showed up for that meeting and the member for St. John's West felt very badly. She reportedly said that there would be serious repercussions for the town and in her position of MP she deserved more courtesy than was shown to her and doggone it, they were in a heap of trouble. Why? Because they were not Liberal bootlickers. They were told to do as they were told, to jump through the hoops-