Madam Speaker, I am glad I was able to be in the House to listen to the hon. member's earlier comments. She talked about cheap politics. Cheap politics is the fact that there was more money spent in the Prime Minister's riding through grants and contributions than was spent in the province of Alberta, Saskatchewan or Manitoba. To me, that is cheap politics. When they can build fountains in the Prime Minister's riding and then reach into a senior citizen's bank account to take money out of her account without her authority, that is cheap politics.
At the time when health care and education budgets were being cut, grants and contributions were going up. How can the hon. member stand in the House and justify that kind of action by the government?