Mr. Speaker, just to clarify, the hon. member put it in quotation marks, but it was not a close, personal friend of my colleague from British Columbia but the commissioner of the RCMP who said the RCMP would be uncomfortable. There are no quotation marks needed because that is fact.
I want to go back for a moment to something my colleague said in a previous response to my question. He talked about burdening future generations. I am guessing he owns a house. I do not know for sure. I am guessing he did not pay cash for that house. He probably took out a mortgage. He borrowed money. Why did he borrow money, presumably? Why do Canadians borrow money? They do it to invest. Our government is investing in people.
I would ask him whether he believes a national school food program and child care are mere bureaucracy, as the Leader of the Opposition is so fond of saying.