Mr. Speaker, during the Christmas holiday three more people died on the notorious Trans-Canada death strip in southwestern Saskatchewan. That brings the death toll to 39 since 1978.
Since this government has expressed no interest in meeting its obligations with respect to what is laughingly called our national highway system, I have some modest proposals. First, we could give the Trans-Canada highway to Bombardier. Then there would be no limit to the availability of federal funding. Or we could turn it over to Doug Young and his associates as a toll road and they could be guaranteed with federal money a reasonable rate of return on their investment.
Finally, and this is the least likely, we could try to convince this government that an adequate Trans-Canada highway would be beneficial to national unity.