Mr. Speaker, sometimes one just accidently steps into it in this business. I want to give an example of how we would spend more wisely. That would more appropriately answer the question. Remember when I talked about that billion dollars wasted on the long gun registry? That would be a start. That would be a billion dollars the taxpayer would not have had to pay out, which may have remained in our hind pockets.
Another example is this. Remember the cancellation of the helicopter deal? The Government of Canada spent $500 million dollars cancelling a contract with not one helicopter being built. The Prime Minister, in the 1993 election, said, “I will write, 'Zero helicopters'”. Well he did exactly that. Zero helicopters cost us $500 million.
That is a billion and a half and I could go on but I see my time is up. I love those kinds of questions. The parliamentary secretary stepped into it on his own free will and accord.