Mr. Speaker, I do apologize to sailors, whether they are military sailors or any others. To compare them and their spending to government spending is certainly a slag on them. I do not have any intention of doing that because government spending is totally out of control.
We have seen a gun registry estimated at $2 million. That was what the justice minister at the time said it would cost. It is a billion dollars now and it will go up to $2 billion before too many years into the future. There was GST fraud where a billion dollars was thrown away. The HRDC scandal was a billion dollars. A billion dollars here and there is real money and the member should acknowledge that.
There is wasted spending on political friends in that party. It goes on all the time and it must stop. It is out of control and in this budget alone there is more than $18 billion in new spending. The former finance minister in his previous four budgets had increases of about $7 billion a year in spending. That sounds like spending that is out of control.
I make no apology for bringing up the issue of government spending being totally out of control because it is. There is so little for our military. It seems like the government does not care about our serving men and women at all. They are asked to do way too much with way too little. The government does not care about that. It spends peanuts on the military compared to what it spends on other programs that will be eaten up by inefficient bureaucracy just like the gun registry program.