Mr. Speaker, a joint study by the Citizen and the Chronicle-Herald clearly establishes that the Conservatives are using the stimulus package on a very partisan basis.
I remember Preston Manning founding a movement and coming to Ottawa to fight against exactly this kind of pork-barrelling practice. The Prime Minister used to be a proud member of that movement.
Now he has his members of Parliament hiding behind the Chrétien Liberals and using exactly the same approaches that they used to adopt.
Why has the Prime Minister abandoned Preston Manning and sided with the Chrétien Liberal plan?