Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Prime Minister. Today we learned that Scotiabank, Alcan and other corporate executives would buy direct preferential access to world leaders at the Quebec summit of the Americas. Trade bureaucrats say it is just business as usual. For a mere half a million dollars corporations can pole vault right over the three metre high chain link fence.
Has the Prime Minister no understanding of why ordinary citizens find this unsettling? Does the Prime Minister have no problem with corporations buying political access at the Quebec summit?