Madam Speaker, I was talking to a colleague not too long about the $7 million we spent on that ice rink. When they said, “Well, that is only $7 million,” I responded that if we did that 100 times over it would be a heck of a lot of money wasted. That is exactly what we see with the $400 million that was wasted on 186 ineligible projects. That money could have done so much, such as assist with training for our frontline workers who are dealing with sexual violence.
We all know about the bail system and that we need to do a lot with judges. Any time we are talking about what is happening in the criminal justice system, we could put some money there for proper training for our judges, so we do not have people who have murdered or sexually assaulted somebody back on the streets within 24 hours. We need to make sure that judges have the training.
We need to make sure that money is used for food banks. There has been so much use of food banks. What could the government do? Cutting the carbon tax is one thing, but there are many others.