Let me review some of that waste: $20,000 on flowers and centrepieces; nearly $300,000 on gifts and promotional items; over $3 million on a preliminary meeting at a high-priced hotel in Lake Louise and in Ottawa; $20,000 in ice sculptures; and $57,000 on lapel pins and zipper pulls.

Mr. Speaker, for three days of meetings the Conservatives spent nearly $20,000 on flowers and centrepieces.

The common quality standards for cauliflowers, tomatoes, apples and pears, peaches, citrus fruits and table grapes shall be supplemented by the addition of a further quality class described as "Class III".

Whereas application of the common quality standards already in force in trade between Member States to cauliflowers, tomatoes, apples and pears, peaches, citrus fruits and table grapes marketed within the Community would prevent part of the output from being marketed ; whereas, therefore, these standards should be supplemented by a further quality class to permit, for the period laid down in the last subparagraph of Article 2 (1) of Regulation No 158/66/EEC, the marketing of products which although excluded from higher classes nevertheless fulfil criteria of quality which ca ...[+++]n satisfy consumer requirements and are of value from the producers' point of view;