Mr. Speaker, I listened with some interest to what the member opposite was saying. On behalf of the constituents of Waterloo—Wellington, and indeed other Canadians to whom I have talked over the course of this discussion, I wanted to say that whenever members opposite, and more to the point, the reformed alliance people, run out of steam on an issue such as this one, it seems to me that one of their last tricks is to call for a public inquiry.
What they have done over the course of time on this very important debate is quite shameful. They have repeated the nonsense about a billion dollars missing and the business about a boondoggle, which is totally groundless, totally false, totally inaccurate and totally without base. They have continued to repeat that mantra in the most egregious fashion.
What I find objectionable is that they are not even big enough to admit that they were wrong. What they try to do now is to spin it out. The member for Calgary—Nose Hill, with her 15 seconds of fame in the whole issue, wants to keep spinning it out and is in the process of doing a job on the whole grants and contributions business that is inconsistent with what the regions, the provinces and the communities of this great country want.
I want to ask a question of the member opposite who just spoke. Why is it that in your usual extremist fashion, which is always consistent with the reformed alliance position, you cannot be big enough to admit that you were wrong and that you should apologize to the Canadian people?