Thank you, Madam Chair.
It was all the way back on March 25 that the Minister of Finance stated that help for the energy sector was coming within hours, possibly days.
Well, as it turns out, it hasn't been hours. It hasn't been days. It hasn't even been weeks. Indeed, months later, help has yet to arrive. Seventy-seven days after the minister made that statement, not a single energy company has received financing under EDC, the BDC, or the LEEFF program.
As the energy sector faces an unprecedented liquidity crisis, how can this government possibly justify such a delay?