No one sent it to an ad agency as my helpful colleague from Toronto--Danforth says in his great support for me. Perhaps we could get him to move somewhere else.
What is interesting is that if the members of the opposition had discovered this prior to the admission by the department and the referral to the auditor general, I would be hearing the howls of indignation in this place. They would be asking what is wrong with me and demand that I recover the money because it belongs to federal taxpayers. I can almost hear them now. It would be eloquent, I am sure, but loud and vociferous. They would say it is awful and another scandal in their minds.
However, when the government determines that there is a problem and goes about fixing it, what does the opposition do? It does not come up with a policy item that Canadians might wish to think about in terms of what it might offer as an alternative. Rather, it says we should just forget about it.