“We have a government here that has to create an artificial lake when Canada has more lakes than just about any other country in the world. It is the taxpayers who are going to end up at the bottom of the fake lake with a fake Muskoka behind them. How can the Prime Minister justify wasting taxpayers’ dollars this way? It is absurd!”
- Jack Layton, New Democratic Party Leader
June 7, 2010 during question period in the House of Commons in response to the Conservative government's plan to build a $2 MILLION artificial lake in the Direct Energy Centre for the upcoming G20 Sumit.
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“We have a government here that has to create an artificial lake when Canada has more lakes than just about any other country in the world. It is the taxpayers who are going to end up at the bottom of the fake lake with a fake Muskoka behind them. How can the Prime Minister justify wasting taxpayers’ dollars this way? It is absurd!”
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