Mr. Speaker, I note that the previous speaker was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Human Resources Development Canada, that infamous department with the billion dollar boondoggle.
I thought I heard her say that they have hired 3,000 extra staff to deal with the issue. I may be wrong. I was actually focused on something else, but I think I heard that 3,000 extra staff had been hired.
The parliamentary secretary gave a long diatribe against other parties in this House. I really would like to know how she feels about a billion dollar boondoggle, gross mismanagement in the department, money being wasted and money that cannot be found, other than the fact that there is a cancelled cheque. How does that actually benefit Canadians?
We know the taxpayers are getting squeezed to come up with the cash. When she has no real idea where the money has gone, why it has gone to any particular area, or what benefit it gave to Canadians, why would we want to support the estimates which will give more money to this department?
A member of the Canadian Alliance has moved that $110 million for the transitional jobs fund be eliminated. We have already had over the previous months the minister of HRDC admit that her pockets of unemployment, which allowed her to channel money into her neighbourhood—