Mr. Chairman, we do not have a policy in place and even though I have written to the Finance Committee and the Chairman, they have not been able to address the issue themselves.
We do not have a policy in place to address issues that ordinary Members have. And I am sure that if there was a policy in place, I would have something for my own community but as long as I am left in a situation where I lobby the Minister, the Finance Committee, the ordinary Members, but nothing is in place to govern how the allocating of money should be given to communities on historical buildings, sites or museums, then the government as well as ordinary Members are at a loss.
I think we need some guidelines to govern how this is done. This does lose the anticipated allocations to historical buildings or sites. There is still money allocated in the future for those communities that we are looking at but as long as we do not have the measurement of fairness of allocations, then I cannot support something like this. The principle is to have something in place. I feel that I am betrayed; other communities are getting and I am not. I have done my fair share of work and the community has to raise its own money without relying on outside foundations.
So I feel I am treated unfairly but I still support the motion because we must have something in place to address historical buildings, museums, etc.