Mr. Speaker, I am pleased the Prime Minister's record has been raised. The Prime Minister, when he was finance minister, took $25 billion out of the health care system, which triggered the health care crisis we see today.
When the Prime Minister was the finance minister, we had the boondoggles of the HRDC, the gun registry, the sponsorship program and the list could go on.
There are many examples where moneys could have been better invested in the priority areas which the member has outlined. The member spoke of the tragedies facing our first nations. Michael Dechter came to the health committee and outlined, as did the Auditor General, how billions of dollars had been spent on our first nations but with little accountability.
No matter how much money is called investment or called throwing money into a black hole, unless there is accountability and a way of measuring how that money is spent, there is no way to know if that money is being utilized effectively.
If we look at the first nations, I do not think anyone in the House who would say that all the money which was intended to go to the first nations people went to them. The conditions that many of these people live in are deplorable and it is a national disgrace.
We have to do better. Part of that is to have a responsible plan that is enforced with a fear of vengeance.