Please allow me to interrupt you, because I only have two minutes left.
The situation is clear: There was misconduct, and Minister Champagne was obliged to suspend, to freeze the funding. You're all here today to tell us that funding for projects that will create 34,700 jobs for the future in Canada is linked to projects that may have been frozen because of misconduct. That's the picture. You don't have to paint it for us. We appreciate your industry.
What I'm saying is that it's absolutely disturbing to see a Liberal defending such inadequate management of a fund, implying that we in the opposition are putting environmental companies on trial. Yet the processes weren't followed, so in your enterprises for the industry of the future, you've lost your venture capital funding, when that's exactly what's needed for the industry of the future.
That's why I'm asking if it's possible to verify the number of job losses caused by the funding freeze and to forward this information in writing to the
clerk of the committee. I would find it extremely interesting to have this information, because it would allow us to eventually recommend that this money, that is, Quebec's share, be paid to Quebec City, to a real legislative authority, one that really fights climate change, so that Quebec's Ministère de l'Économie, de l'Innovation et de l'Énergie, which for the moment, at least, is not burdened by scandals like these, can create projects that meet the aspirations of Quebeckers.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.