Mr. Speaker, the comments by the Prime Minister of this country are very distressing. As part of his tour in Africa he said that Canada has not done enough to help out third world countries and will in future contribute more money to these nations.
The Prime Minister should look in his own backyard first. Travelling halfway around the world to see people needing help is unnecessary. Come to my home province of Saskatchewan and see the suffering going on in rural communities.
He gives aid to foreign countries, but will not look at supporting the people who put the food on his plate every day. Here is what one of my constituents had to say:
To hear the Prime Minister promise more aid to another country with my money when I could use that money myself seems, well, just plain wrong.
The government has lost touch with the rural segment of our society. The Prime Minister should make a trip out to the prairies to see suffering in his own country. When will he realize that if he does not take any action on the prairies, he will have a third world country to bail out, but this time it will be his own.