Mr. Speaker, I am glad the parliamentary secretary used the phrases “precisely wrong” and “approximately correct” because he is dead wrong.
We are not talking about the 0.2% that went to the people in the graveyards, who could not send the cheque back because they were not really in a position to cash it in the first place. We are not talking about the money that went to the people in prison because they should not have got it either. We were talking about the 90,000 people, many of whom did not file a tax return, who were in no position to qualify for the rebate. We are also mighty upset about the $500 million that was wasted and sent to the people who really did not need it in the first place.
I know my son does not like me to talk about him, but he qualified for the rebate. He lives in a little house in a small town in Alberta. He has not paid a utility bill yet because all the rebates and so on are happening so fast that they are bigger than his actual utility bill. He has not paid a dime, he has a credit on his bill of $330, yet he got the subsidy.
What did he say about being approximately right or dead wrong? He was dead wrong.