Mr. Speaker, I put a question on the order paper a little while ago to try to find out why the government has not paid the provinces in Atlantic Canada that experienced extra costs because of September 11. Instead of getting that answer, I got back a list of money that was paid to airlines. The government budgeted a total of $158 million. It has already paid out over $99 million to the airlines.
If the government could pay $99 million to the airlines, why can it not pay a couple of million dollars to the provinces?