Mr. Speaker, it is too much.
Not only is half a million dollars being spent to tell ministers how to conduct a tour, and a quarter of a million to tell them what to say, but another $1,208,000 is being spent to have a specialized firm read the newspapers in order to see whether the ministers have done their job well.
Does the Minister of Public Works and Government Services, who is the chief organizer of the Liberal Party of Quebec, not find it scandalous that almost $2 million in taxpayers' money has been wasted for the sole purpose of parading federal ministers around Quebec?