Ms. Hunter, since FedNor is not here, the minister is on the record in a letter to The Sault Star in Sault Ste. Marie as saying that it was never a northern Ontario program for FedNor, but a FedNor expenditure never implemented.
Why would Quebec have been so far advanced? I think I know some of the answer there. This money was announced, it was supposed to be flowing, yet here agencies like FedNor and the western Canada agency were nowhere close to actually getting this out the door.
What was the problem, and why would it have been so easy to cut?