Mr. Speaker, the member mentioned les bénévoles, the volunteers, and it was inconceivable to me that a government with all of the money that the member just outlined, the huge surplus, could actually even consider cutting so many programs for the most vulnerable in our society, and particularly volunteers, especially when the finance minister knows, and maybe one of the few members of his caucus who is aware, that the volunteers provide a huge economic boost to Canada by providing so much free service and getting so many things done that would cost government so much more.
I wonder if the member agrees with me when she was so astonished and disagreed with the fact that the new government has cut money to support volunteers who do so much in Canada and who are so much a part of the type of nation that we believe in.