Mr. Speaker, I would also like to credit the HRD people and officials with doing great work. It is a pity there is such political interference from the top that they are not allowed to do their jobs.
While the Philippines were collapsing, Imelda just kept on buying shoes. Poor Imelda, she was the last to know about any disaster happening in her country.
It seems to me that the film idea Yes, Minister was a great take-off on this, except that it was fiction in Britain. It was supposed to be a spoof that was funny. It is reality here now in Canada.
In spite of the government's billion dollar bungle, the minister carried on and flushed another $500 million out in programs. Was the taste of that first bungle just—