Cultural Grants Acknowledgement Act  APEC curtails democracy through informal understandings. Democratic countries align themselves with the most repressive and corrupt regimes in the world while at the same time shutting out the voices of the civil society. There is also the argument that better trade will increase human rights. However, when trade agreements changed in China in 1988 and 1989 we saw the Tiananmen massacre.

Pearson International Airport  They were accused of anything and everything and I suspect they were guilty of most of what they were accused of. One of the things the present government accused the Tories of was having a corrupt deal in the Pearson development contract. The Liberals accused them that it was a pay off for their Tory friends and supporters and said that they were going to investigate it. I do not argue with the premise to look at it.

Supply  Although I have seen no empirical evidence I suspect a lot of Canadians these days are not paying the taxes they are actually obligated to pay, in the underground economy or whatever. I am loath to say these are bad citizens because they know our system is so corrupt. As my friend said earlier, people in Atlantic Canada know the tax system is wrong when there are folks who buy expensive yachts and get tax breaks while they now have to pay extra taxes on their children's winter clothing, on their books and school supplies and on heating fuel.

Recall Act  A December 30 article in the Ottawa Citizen refers to 18 members and ministers on the Liberal side of the House and on the Conservative side of the House who were implicated in such corruption. There was also more evidence in a June 28 article that reads: ``Two PC MPs leave caucus pending probe, an RCMP investigation into the misuse of federal funds''. Another article that caught my eye states: "Prime Minister Kim Campbell has inherited the mandate of one of the most corrupt governments in Canadian history.

Code Of Conduct  It is quite clear that these were not off the cuff ideas but well thought out initiatives made by a party that had witnessed eight years of Tory corruption. I hope we do not have to sit here for eight years of Liberal corruption. With this special joint committee, the Liberals are now saying that everything that was said in the past, all the ideas and initiatives that were to be followed through on, if only they had the chance, are all history.

Communications  But the Liberals believe that if programming does not come from Canada's monopolies, officially sanctioned by the CRTC, then it will corrupt us. Three hundred thousand Canadians have said enough is enough and have tuned the Liberal government out. They are watching what they want, paying for they want, enjoying what they want on their direct to home satellite systems.

Removal Services  Speaker, chapter 21 of the Auditor General of Canada's latest report deals with the mismanagement of the military and the way it conducts the $100 million plus household goods removal service of the federal government. It is inefficient, provides poor service and is open to corruption and conflict of interest. This past month the Regina police laid fraud charges against a former manager of a moving company. The 24 alleged victims included 7 private citizens, 10 corporations, 5 provincial government agencies and 2 RCMP moves.

Grand Parents' Day Act  Mr. Speaker, we have another instance of lobbying, patronage, and maybe corruption with the Agusta affair involving an Italian firm, Agusta S.p.A., a manufacturer for the EH-101 helicopter contract which was cancelled and for which there was to be no compensation.

Supply  I did point out that the Reform Party is alone among political parties in Canada in relying so heavily upon the individual financial support of ordinary Canadians rather than the big money contributors to the old corrupt parties opposite. I really do appreciate quite sincerely the sentiment expressed by the hon. member for Lac-Saint-Jean that members should raise money from individuals and not from big business.

Supply  It is because of people like them that people are so cynical about politics. It is because of incidents like this one, because of the corruption going on, that they do not want to hear about politics. And you don't have to wonder why.

Supply  Let me anticipate some of the objections to our argument against public funding of political parties. Some say that this is merely a means to open up the floodgates to all sorts of corruption, vote buying and influence purchasing on the part of corporations and major donors. Let me point out one thing to the House. The Reform Party acts, it does not just talk, it walks the talk of integrity in fundraising.

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?