Mr. Speaker, does the Minister of Justice seriously think that Canada would be a lot worse off if, instead of spending $5 million on pins, flags, t-shirts and fireworks, it put that $5 million into saving the Montreal Grand Prix, investing the taxpayers' money wisely and saving the $80 million in economic spinoffs and all the related jobs?
In the House of Commons on September 18th, 2003. See this statement in context.