The choice is $150 guaranteed in your pocket — from the personal income tax cut set out in my bill — or pay an additional $150 in federal tax and then see whether you spend enough to get the $150 back.

It will cost them probably three or four times that to collect it.

Evidence of the problems to which this financial management culture gives rise can be seen in the budgetary planning far in excess of the Commission s real ability to plan and spend; in weak management of available funds (which are paid out without regard to the legislator s objectives and/or without sufficiently clear targets being specified for achievement through the expenditure in question, and often without sufficient attention to cost- effectiveness); and in failure to act quickly and vigorously to recover funds wrongly paid or overpaid.

Do you know that in Ivujivik, for a meal of two sirloin steaks, very ordinary side dishes and a head of lettuce that we were able to salvage two leaves from, we had to spend $189?