Mr. Speaker, I will ignore that for the time being.
The opposition House leader also requested that a minister table his briefing book. He further alleges that my briefing book was prepared by officials of a government department. That is factually incorrect. I would like him to substantiate that accusation if he has any way of providing that.
Referring to the opposition House leader, I offered yesterday to table the letters that were quoted yesterday. I asked him across the floor of the House by way of interjection to ask me to table the letters because I had annotated them and offered to table them. It is interesting to note that he did not seem to think that it was a good idea to have his own quotes tabled with those of his colleagues in the House of Commons.
The member for Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough would like me to table documents which were not referred to in the House. I would love to table the letter that he sent to the department asking for funding for MacPherson's Trailer Services and the one for the brewery in his constituency. I will drink to that. There is the one he sent for the Dunrite Blasting company, the one for Trans-Atlantic Transport, the one that he sent for Scotia Aqua Farms, the one that he sent for the amusement park, the hair studio, Caren's Shear Magic Hair Design, and the one for Fitness Xpress, but Mr. Speaker, I did not quote from those documents. The rules do not permit me to table in the House of Commons these documents that the hon. member sent, so obviously I do not intend to do so.
Any documents that were quoted from today, other than our own internal documents, I will gladly table. For instance, I am prepared to table the householder of the member for Madawaska—Restigouche which made all sorts of very praising remarks about the human resources department. I will gladly table that particular document because it was actually quoted.
Finally, a member from Winnipeg asked about the amount that human resources development contributed to his constituency. I believe that he asked specifically about the transitional jobs fund. The Prime Minister—