Madam Speaker, I am pleased to rise on this last allotted say to talk about the estimates. Unfortunately it is a sham we go through in the House of Commons each and every year. We pretend to debate one of the most important things that affects all Canadians, the amount of taxes they have to pay and how that money is spent.
According to the estimates for this year, we are going to spend $145,460,380,000. We would think one of the most paramount responsibilities of this place is to talk about how we are going to spend that monstrous amount of cash and to make sure it is for the benefit of all Canadians. The first thing is that the rules prevent us from speaking about most of the money. We can only speak about $42,422,644,000 because the rest being over $103 billion is approved by statute, we are not able to speak on it.