Mr. Speaker, by 2015, the government will have spent nearly $1 billion on partisan advertising. That is nearly three times what it spent on food safety this year, twice as much as what it spent on public health and more than 10 times what it spent on search and rescue. The Conservatives spent $1 billion on its economic action plan ads. I would just like everybody to imagine what we could have really done, what Canadians could have done with that $1 billion.
When is the government going to stop this wasteful spending of taxpayer money and put that money where it is supposed be, which is in the pockets of Canadians, helping Canadians?