A widow came to see me after her husband died. The Department of Revenue had begun to bug him for some paltry amount, a pittance. They went after her husband right to his grave. He was dead, and the letters kept coming.
I am saying that it is not normal when you look into the system, and the Prime Minister wants us to believe there was only about $251 in fraud at the Department of Human Resources Development. It is totally criminal to change and alter truth like that: $251.50. Are we a pack of lunatics here? Tie up parliament for $251.50.
My colleague, the member for Rivière-des-Mille-Îles calculated it on a pro rata basis, the rule of three. The figure involved is $2.8 billion or more exactly $2,750,754—