Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives' last speaker said that my colleague was not an MP in 2006 when the Conservatives announced their cracking down on crime initiative.
It is really demeaning to refer to the knowledge of a member just because he was not elected then. Does he also mean that the members for Mississauga South or Ajax—Pickering should not have spoken on this bill just because they were not elected then? It is very demeaning when a member is referred to as not credible or not knowledgeable because he was not elected in 2006.
That was my comment. Now I am going to ask a question of my colleague.
I know that my colleague represents a rural region, and the RCMP's website clearly says that funding problems impede investigations.
Could my colleague tell us why the government has not allocated more funding to a program that the RCMP has said needs more funding?