Madam Speaker, it is a pleasure to share the floor with my hon. colleague from St. Albert.
He has done a great job in highlighting government waste. Instead of asking him a question I will simply congratulate him for his very hard work and dedicated efforts toward the task. I am sure there are over 1 million people watching this on CPAC. We really appreciate CPAC and the work it does in helping communicate important things from the House of Commons to the people of the country. I would encourage everyone to go to the website of the hon. member for St. Albert. They can enter www.reform.ca and then click on “Go to Members”, find that member and go to the home page. The member has an excellent home page on his website highlighting all the different ways in which we as elected officials have the responsibility to keep accountability on behalf the taxpayers.
I often think of this when I have to spend money in my office budget as a member of parliament. I never want to lose sight of this thought in my head when I am authorizing an expenditure. That is, this represents a taxpayer's hard work and the taxes they have to pay for say, a whole week or whatever it is, however much money I am spending.
I wish we could develop that kind of thinking in all the people who work on behalf of the taxpayers, not only elected officials but all the civil servants.
Certainly our friend, our colleague from St. Albert, is making such a tremendous contribution in this regard. I simply want to commend him. I probably embarrassed him by saying this.