Madam Speaker, I have to agree with my colleague from the New Democratic Party that it is those people who are well connected, who have already made their money who can find their way to the ear of the people who make these appointments by the Liberal Party and then they just feather the nest, courtesy of the taxpayer. The taxpayer gets to fork out the cash, the Liberals' friends get to live in luxury, and we as parliamentarians cannot get that information.
The member from the New Democratic Party also talked about the aboriginal plight and that is serious. We are talking about provisions for corporate plans and annual reports. This is where we are saying this is what we are going to do. Give us a chance and we are going to do this.
All the foundations in our sample except for the Aboriginal Healing Foundation and the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation are now required by the funding agreements to provide corporate plans each year to sponsoring ministers. That is paragraph 4.25 in chapter 4 of the February 2005 report of the Auditor General. These are the two most important foundations.
We know the problems in the Aboriginal Healing Foundation. For education, the interest alone could pay the tuition of tens of thousands of kids going to university, but Liberals keep it in the bank and say this good public policy. We put money into foundations such as the Canada Millennium Scholarship Fund to help kids get an education, to help this country prosper, but the money is sitting in the bank and Liberals tell us that this is good public policy. Shame on them.