Mr. Speaker, I have a supplementary for my friend from Yukon.
It is fine to suggest that somehow now the services and the delivery of those services may be affected, but the problem all along has been that money has gone missing, that money was not accounted for, that money was not properly given out in the first instance. Reports were paid for that were not complete. Money that was supposed to be helping to foster business was going to numbered companies in the HRDC scandal. There were untendered contracts for jets for $101 million, which is the exact amount that the PCO is seeking here.
This is all about hiding the actual use of taxpayer dollars, not being accountable to the public and, in essence, setting up a scheme in which money is going to handpicked friends, relatives and donors of the Liberal Party to perpetrate power. That kind of chicanery, duplicity and patronage system is unprecedented in the country under this administration.