It is giggle time over there. I thought that might happen. I just happen to have a list of financial institutions that have gone down the tube since 1970 for which the taxpayers of Canada have picked up the pieces. There are 32 of them, $9,392,000,000. Of that, there is $5,189,000,000 in recoveries. Somehow there is $4 billion of taxpayers' money, people who are struggling to get by earning $8 to $10 an hour, going to the government and all of a sudden we are backstopping huge businesses. There are a few more here, another three pages.
I do want to compliment the government on one of these. This is through western economic diversification. This was federal funding to Consumers' Paper Corporation and SHOTCO Ammunition Corporation. They were cancelled by the minister in charge of western economic development. One was labelled as a
political handout and the other 30 per cent owned by the Venezuelan military. At least it is looking at it. I give the government credit for that.
Meanwhile we have Bell Helicopter, $165 million; Algoma Steel, $15 million-pages and pages of money that has been lent by governments to small and medium size business that has been written off. It is not our responsibility as elected members of Parliament to-