Mr. Speaker, spending priorities say a lot about a government. This summer while hospitals were closing, while universities were cutting back on classes, while seniors prepared themselves for the benefits clawback, while the GST was being levied on the books and while the debt climbed up toward $600 billion, our heritage minister dug deep into taxpayers' pockets and found another $23 million for flags.
I realize that the broken GST promise has probably harmed her future leadership bid, but does she really think that taxpayers would prefer cutting in health, education and other priority areas while spending moneys on a flag program?