Mr. Speaker, I can only believe that the Bloc keeps repeating the same ridiculous allegations in the hope that sooner or later people will start to believe them.
What we have made clear is that there is a program of defence conversion. Yes, DIPP needs to be expanded and yes, we need to create a revolving fund, but fundamentally we made a key promise when we went to the polls last October which was in part to cut subsidies to business.
The Bloc keeps wanting us to write cheques to companies which somehow or other were not aware that the Berlin wall came down in 1989 and their shareholders are not willing to invest enough now to give them a plan for the future. If that is the kind of company the member wants us to give money to, I am sorry I do not agree with him and the government does not agree with him.
We are prepared to work on strategies for companies. We are prepared to help them identify markets. We are prepared to work with their managers and their shareholders. However it has to be
a co-operative effort including all of the stakeholders in each case, in each company.