Cabinet rates its “nation building bill” a success though no project has been approved since it passed into law last June 26, a parliamentary committee was told. Conservative MP Aaron Gunn (North Island-Powell River, B.C.) ridiculed the claim at a hearing of a Special Joint Committee: “John A. Macdonald and Wilfrid Laurier are looking down on us saying, ‘These guys know how to build things now’?”



