Supply  This form of funding, where businesses can fund political parties and where no limit is set, opens the door to corruption and to influence peddling, and this is what we have seen in the past two weeks.

Rcmp Investigations  Speaker, no doubt that will win a lot of points with the boss. What an amazing coincidence. We are starting to see how corrupt the government and its transitional jobs fund are. RCMP affidavits say that top Liberal bagman Pierre Corbeil told companies that if they did not pay the Liberals big time he could nix the grant request, but if they paid in cash with fake invoices he could seal the deal.

Government Grants  On the Wednesday he wrote to the RCMP as if there was some amazing new revelation that he had received to blow the whistle on corruption in that fund. The ink was not even dry on those cheques. Let me ask him this and please come up with a better defence. Did it just hit the minister that something might be wrong as the clock struck midnight?

Supply  How can the government claim to be acting in compliance with a code of ethics when it stubbornly keeps on its payroll people who are said to have deliberately tried to corrupt entrepreneurs for the sole purpose of bringing money into the party's coffers? Why was Pierre Corbeil not immediately suspended? Why is Jacques Roy, an assistant to the President of the Treasury Board, still working for the government in spite of the fact that his actions are currently under investigation?

Supply  I also pay tribute to members of the Bloc and the Reform Party for having the good sense to join us in this open debate concerning government accountability. The stench of corruption that now hangs over this government is something which we have to deal with in a very timely and effective manner. This stench exists because of questions surrounding the relationship of ministers of this government and their departmental information and agents of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act  We would have a team of bureaucrats or political appointees, chosen by the finance minister, to direct where $130 billion would go in the economy. That is ridiculous. We have heard in the House today and in previous days how corrupt are some of the things that go on in this government. Do we really want to turn over the keys to the vault to these people? We are talking about $130 billion. These people forget to whom that money belongs.

National Revenue  Speaker, these are publicly made allegations, publicly reported in the newspapers about fraud, corruption, nepotism and abuse in the department. Surely the government takes that seriously enough to investigate those independent of the appeal happening. Does the parliamentary secretary deny we have learned that Mr.

Liberal Party Of Canada  Speaker, given the fact that 70 percent of CIDA contractors were big Liberals and given the latest RCMP investigation into corrupt Liberal fundraising it is crucial that the government clear the air and clean up its act. In order to restore faith in the integrity of government, will the prime minister convene an independent inquiry into how the government doles out contracts?

Speech From The Throne  Please do not ask us to trust the government. Let us opt out of its pyramid scheme and wrest our money from its corrupting grasp. Yet I fear there is even more. The Liberals pride themselves on the political machine vote buying tactics. Why they even preened about increasing the size of the bureaucracy by 3,000 temporary bureaucrats with $90 million of taxpayer money.

Customs  One of the minister's top customs officers has threatened to muzzle and fire this officer of the minister's department for making these allegations. Is that how the minister treats employees who try to expose fraud, waste and corruption in his department?

Revenue Canada  There is a veteran customs officer we have just heard about who is going to be blowing the whistle on the corruption at Revenue Canada. It is not just an isolated case like the minister would like to talk about. Documents are about to be filed. This officer reports that when the minister's staff members were supposed to be searching aeroplanes at Toronto's Pearson airport they were actually pulled away from their jobs to expedite FedEx shipments.

Supply  The auditor general pointed out that the lack of inventory control at national defence cost the government $1.7 billion. Why do they repeatedly point out the terrible waste and even corruption that goes on in Indian affairs and nothing ever seems to change? We point out some of the ridiculous grants that are given not only to special interest groups, arts funding and things that are beyond the pale, but also to business groups.

Lobbyists Registration Act  Supreme power is having the ability to do whatever one wants and to be totally above suspicion. It is a matter of degree of corruption, in fact, because this is a case of corruption. We must not fool ourselves. It is a sign of extraordinary power when you can reach such a level of corruption and be totally above suspicion.

Lobbyists Registration Act  It is time we realize that when there are amendments made that will be beneficial to taking corruption out of the system we should support them, not because they are made by the Reform Party or the Bloc, but because they are good for the country.

Pearson International Airport Agreements Act  The public interest becomes lost somewhere between the shuffle of favour after favour and the public interest begins to suffer. This is how political corruption develops. This is exactly how the Conservative Party of Canada has corrupted itself in this Pearson airport deal; a tight circle of friends, bound together no longer by common political purpose but by using their political associations to benefit financially from the public purse.