Mr. Speaker, we have heard what politicians think about this sponsorship scandal but let us listen to what Canadians out in the real world think about it.
In a letter to the editor published in yesterday's National Post , a Toronto resident, Neil Macdonald, wrote:
Today I wrote my first letter ever to my Member of Parliament. The message was simple: After years of waning support for the Liberal Party of Canada, my confidence has been unrepairably shattered by Auditor-General Sheila Fraser's report....
Why should Canadians trust the Prime Minister to run their country when he failed so miserably to protect their tax dollars when he was finance minister?