Mr. Speaker, in the mess at the Department of Human Resources Development, the Prime Minister has said that only 37 cases are litigious. These 37 cases come from a sampling of 459 cases taken at random from among 30,000 cases.
Equally logically, if it may be put that way, the Prime Minister could say that the findings of a recent poll of a Canadian sample of 1,007 persons, which reveals that 544 would currently vote for the Liberals in an election, could be taken to mean that, in Canada, only 544 Canadians support the Liberals.
Obviously that is absurd, but no more absurd, since it is the same logic used to state that only 37 cases are litigious at HRDC.
The Prime Minister is obviously aware of this absurdity, but he apparently thinks that Canadians are dumb enough to believe it. Treat a people with any more disdain than that and you die.