Gerard Kennedy - Question Period, October 29, 2009

Infrastructure

Mr. Gerard Kennedy (Parkdale—High Park, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, that is rich. Every single promise the government has made about infrastructure spending has been broken. When the Minister of Industry is treating the G8 summit as a political slush fund opportunity, he is now also harming Canadian students. The minister is shortchanging the majority of students who live in opposition ridings by over $400 per student, a total of $250 million less for better buildings and resources. Can the minister explain to Canadian students and their parents why they are being so mistreated by the government?


Mr. Gerard Kennedy (Parkdale—High Park, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, Canadians are beginning to recognize and expect this smugness. The Minister of Industry assigned 74% more dollars to Conservative areas in British Columbia and 102% more dollars to Conservative areas in Ontario. Nine out of the top ten institutions getting up to $40,000 a student are in ridings held by the Conservative Party. At the same time, students in Canada's research universities are getting less than their share just because they happen to be in opposition areas. Is there any point at which the government is going to stop putting the Conservative Party first and the country second?

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