Mr. Speaker, despite the minister's fine words there is no real accounting in regional development. I point to his department. Over a quarter of the loans approved by his department did not even need government assistance in the first place, according to the auditor general's report. Those approvals amounted to $65 million for FORD-Q.
Will the minister commit today to stop this hemorrhaging of Canadians' hard earned tax dollars? In other words will he do his job?