Mr. Speaker, what we are really talking about today is accountability. I want to address a somewhat related issue to accountability and have the hon. member comment on it.
There is an ongoing discussion about moving government departments out of the city of Ottawa, out of the national capital region, to shore up Liberal support in other regions. I will just quote a report that came out of the Regina Leader-Post :
Liberal MPs from Atlantic Canada have made it particularly clear that he shouldn't repeat the kind of cuts that hit their region very hard a decade ago and led to the loss of 20 Liberal seats in the 1997 election, said McCallum.