Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the hon. member for Vancouver—Quadra.
We have an internal audit that was released by the Minister of Human Resources Development. The minister announced a six point plan to deal with this particular situation with which I do not think anyone in the House is pleased.
We hear though from the opposition terms like scandal, pork-barrelling and slush fund. We do not hear anything from the opposition about what we should be trying to do to fix the problem. How can we constructively participate in making sure that this problem does not happen again? But no, we would rather bandy about cheap terms that have little credence. We know that it was not $1 billion missing, but we continue to hear the $1 billion figure. Unfortunately, if we say something long enough we tend to believe it, which is certainly the case across the aisle.
The fact is, we have 459 projects—