Mr. Speaker, after shaking down children for campaign donations and attempting to raise the dead for, we can only assume, a divine intervention in his Liberal leadership campaign , the member for Eglinton—Lawrence is once again reminding Canadian taxpayers that the Liberal Party regards public money as its money.
While the federal accountability act is languishing in the Liberal dominated Senate, the staff of the publicly funded Career Foundation have demonstrated true accountability. By blowing the whistle on a scam which saw clients of the publicly funded organization work on the member's leadership campaign in the days running up to the so-called stupor weekend, they have demonstrated great courage.
Let me speak very, very slowly to the official opposition. Taxpayer money is not the property of the Liberal Party.
Thank goodness Canada has a new accountable government that respects public funds.
Old habits may die hard for the Liberal Party, but the age of transparent and accountable government is well under way in Ottawa.