Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I think Mr. Turnbull actually said it quite well right at the very end. Look at the number of people who are getting grants and contributions from this government. You wonder why it's scandal after scandal with these guys. You wonder why we're on the fourth week of the House of Commons being jammed up by the green slush fund issue here. It's on and on with these guys.
Of course, when we see this happening over and over again, I get people back home talking to me on a regular basis. I remember when this money first went out to Mastercard. At the time, I had a lot of people talk to me about why on earth they would be giving $50 million to a company that is as profitable and has as much money available to spend on things as Mastercard. There was the $12 million for refrigerators to Loblaws, which is a very profitable company as well and was going to make those changes itself anyway. It certainly did not need taxpayers' money in order to make those changes.
I think that gets to the heart of this. It is the fact that you have all this money going out to corporations and businesses that don't necessarily need it. It is the fact that they did not ask to have a repayment plan as part of the contribution. It is the fact that it was just a straight-up grant and not a loan. Those things speak to the issues here.
It leads you to wonder who on earth asked for this. Who initiated this? Did the government just blindly give them $50 million? When we had Mastercard witnesses here, they sure seemed to not want to say who initiated this or why they wanted the $50 million. They just kept talking about their investment in cybersecurity.
It leads one to wonder what the terms of the agreement were. What happened? That's what this motion gets to. I think it's a reasonable ask. It's not a fishing expedition. It's called accountability, given the large amount of money this government seems to be shovelling out so blindly.
It wouldn't surprise me if, next week, there's a whole other issue that comes up here that we're going to have to take a look at, because it happens over and over again with these guys. It never seems to end. They never seem to learn their lesson. I don't know.
That's the end of my comments.