Question Period - June 7 2010 - Siobhan Coady and the G8 steamboat

From Question Period on June 7, 2010. Here, Liberal MP Siobhan Coady hammers Industry Minister Tony Clement on the funding for the restoration of a steamboat in his riding. Ms. Coady cites evidence that such funding will come from the G8 budget, while Mr. Clement denies this.

Transcript from the Parliamentary Hansard:

Ms. Siobhan Coady (St. John's South—Mount Pearl, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Industry is engaging in fiction when he pretends a steamboat for which he authorized $400,000 was never meant to be a G8 project. The local municipal council passed a resolution to support the "SS Bigwin Steamship Restoration Project as a G8 Summit Project". The website of the boat's builder even says that funds have been requested from "the G8 legacy program".

If hauling out a sunken steamboat can be billed as G8 spending, how much more money is being squandered in this massive Conservative boondoggle?


Hon. Tony Clement (Minister of Industry, CPC): Mr. Speaker, for a party and a caucus that aspires to be government, it is shocking and shameful how ridiculous that party's research is. That particular project was never approved for G8 funding, never got G8 funding and was not part of the G8 funding. For those members to say otherwise is false and it shows once again why they are not fit to govern.


Ms. Siobhan Coady (St. John's South—Mount Pearl, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, I would be really happy to table all the documents and articles from the minister's local paper.

The minister somehow thinks it is important to state that the steamboat is being restored using a different slush fund, not the G8 one. His riding is awash in excessive spending when neighbouring ridings have trouble affording essential infrastructure.

How much of the G8 boondoggle spending is sucking money from other program spending?

When will the minister come clean on how much money the government is spending to try to get him re-elected?


Hon. Tony Clement (Minister of Industry, CPC): Mr. Speaker, speaking of summit funding, when the hon. member's predecessors were in government, they gave money to the Bluenose for the Halifax summit.

That is okay, but according to the false logic of members opposite, it is not okay to do something for this summit. That is the tired ridiculous logic of the Liberal Party of Canada, which proves once again why the Liberals are on that side, rather than on this side.


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[mrdropout]

amen brother. accountability went right out the window when harper got his majority. they now answer every question with, "well, that's why you lost and we won. because you are wrong about everything." but really, aren't the childish brushoffs hiding a much deeper dillusion that somehow, despite all evidence to the contrary, that the PCs know better then anyone how to run a country. the reckless disregard for process and procedure, may seem chaotic to the casual observer, but they are not.

[imyourhustler]

What a stupid sack of shit. Economics 101. If your running a deficit allocate all resources to eliminate it. It's collusion between gov and banks since they don't pay it off and then interest goes up and tax payers get raped meanwhile the mps retire on a full pension after 5 years of jerking off. Sheep just aren't very smart.