Mr. Speaker, 12,000 people of Haitian origin live in Papineau-Saint-Michel. Coincidentally the new minister for spending money in Haiti, Pierre Pettigrew, is running in the byelection there.
First, Pierre toured Haiti, then he picked up a $24 million tab for Haitian peacekeeping and spent several million taxpayers' dollars on aid to Haiti. Now he has arranged for the president of Haiti to visit Montreal this weekend.
Is the government prepared to tolerate this blatant influence peddling just to win a single byelection?