Just to clarify for Mr. Lake, we don't want this information so that we can call a press conference and list all the organizations that did or didn't get funding. We want this list so that we can find out how badly this program was screwed up and the impact it's had in the ridings, which is felt, and which the government wants to keep under wraps.
We've never gone out with this list before. We use it in our duties as members of Parliament. The government members are listening to their political masters here. Mr. Chong told me the other day that one of the problems with the old program was that everybody got the same amount. All the ridings got the same amount of money.
There is a riding in Newfoundland that got $1.2 million in funding. My riding got $400,000. There's a riding in Ontario that got $98,000. It was based on criteria. The criterion was the youth unemployment rate in that region, which makes eminent sense.
We need the list so that we can do our jobs as MPs and represent the people we are supposed to represent.