Mr. Speaker, I do not take any comfort from the fact that it is not $50,000 but is $250,000. In some ways depending on how we look at it, this only makes it worse. It is still a problem. We are not making a distinction here between a high priced brothel and a lower priced activity. It is all the same. I think when we put a price on our citizenship, we are prostituting the notion of Canadian citizenship and I do not like it in whatever form it takes.
In the House of Commons on February 16th, 1999. See this statement in context.