Mike Savage: Fake G8/G20

Mr. Michael Savage (Dartmouth—Cole Harbour, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, Canadians have gone from amazement, to shock, to anger over the Conservatives' billion dollar summits. There is even a contest now to name the fake lake. What would we call it? We have heard the "blue lagoon" or "lake waste" or the "excess pool". Given how angry Canadians are, how about we use the phrase coined by a truly great Canadian and call it the "fuddle duddle puddle", or we could call it exactly what it is. We can call it "lake how in the hell can a country with rising poverty rates squander a billion dollars on a meeting". Mr. Michael Savage (Dartmouth—Cole Harbour, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, it is getting absolutely bizarre. We have learned now that the Conservatives are selling off real lighthouses in Canada, including the famous Peggy's Cove lighthouse, but it is full steam ahead for fake lighthouses to guard the G20 fake lake. Real lighthouses, we do not want that. Fake lighthouses, go to the head of the line. It is like a skit out of Monty Python, except it is not funny. Governments make choices. How can this one choose to spend billions of dollars on a weekend when child poverty rates are on the rises, people line up at food banks and people are worried about their pensions?