The member on the opposition side says that it should be embarrassing. Absolutely it should be embarrassing. I know that many members of the Liberal government are embarrassed by this expenditure as well. I think that as parliamentarians we are embarrassed by it. How could that possibly have happened?
This is an area of financial responsibility which falls under the direction of the Minister of Canadian Heritage. How can that minister, who says that she stands to defend women's rights, allow an expenditure of $55,000 of taxpayers' money for a pornographic video? I cannot understand it.
The premise behind my argument is that if the government wants us to trust it with taxpayers' dollars, then it had better start showing us that it is accountable.