Mr. Speaker, I know we all work tremendous hours, but I bet you a dollar there is a Holiday Inn over there that would be a whole lot cheaper than the Excelsior.
I look at the amount of money taxpayers that are on the hook for this. Whether it is $7,000, $8,000, $9,000 or $10,000, it is an exorbitant, horrifying amount of money that the Canadian taxpayer had to fork out. This is scandalous.
There is no way the parliamentary secretary is able to defend this. I will ask him one more time why this amount of money was wasted on Mr. McKechnie by the government when he could have had a free bed at our embassy.