Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Veterans Affairs, who just told us that it is good Liberal common sense to waste tax dollars as has happened in the TAGS program.
We have an audit report from April of 1999, five years after the program began and five years after Liberal administration. It states that most files showed no evidence that project applicants were checked for eligibility, one-third of the files had no rationale for selecting the projects and one-third of the projects did not even meet the criteria for the program.
How can the minister stand in his place and say this is a common sense program when in fact the audit shows that it was another boondoggle by the government?