Mr. Speaker, while money is in such terribly short supply, the federal government has decided to leave the cast and crew of the film Les invasions barbares at home and to send four Canadian diplomatic service staff and their spouses to the Cannes Festival.
Will the government admit that, funds being as short as they are, instead of giving preferential treatment to four public servants and their spouses, more consideration ought to have been shown by first of all inviting our film actors, crew and creators to Cannes?