Thank you, Mr. Chair.
As an amendment, I would propose that we remove “that the committee report to the House to express its concern regarding the value for money for taxpayers”. I believe it's premature. We haven't seen these documents. We haven't had a chance to review them.
We also need to think about the fact that we are in a global marketplace. There was a $510-million investment made by Mastercard to establish the centre. This is a corporation that can go anywhere. In terms of providing an incentive to create the jobs.... I don't recall the number of jobs that were created as a result. I see here now it's around 270 jobs by 2029.
There are times when we need to be competitive. There are times when we need to create incentives in order to have these global corporations, which have liquid capital and can move anywhere around the world, establish themselves in Canada. They can create employment in the areas they've located to in Vancouver. Let's make sure we get all the facts before we, again, jump to conclusions, as we did with the other recommendations.
I would move that we delete the second portion of that.