Mr. Speaker, it is a sure thing that Canadian taxpayers will be paying the Pearson airport piper because of this Liberal government's pathetic performance.
All indications point to a federal settlement where Canadians will be expected to fork over in excess of $60 million for a contract cancellation that this government guaranteed would not cost a penny more than $35 million.
We can probably expect that Canadian travellers will be stuck with a new tax in the future and will all pay it at the airport.
Three years of lost opportunity, multimillion dollar compensation payments and a new airport tax, that is what the people of Canada got from the Prime Minister's irresponsible decision during the 1993 election.
They won the election but once again Canadians lose. It is the Canadian taxpayer who will pay for the Liberal screw-up on the Pearson airport deal.