Mr. Speaker, the auditor general's report made a number of recommendations concerning export promotion activities. It asked the government to keep Parliament better informed about $375 million spent with respect to results, revenue and costing, in the obvious interest of transparency and in order to prevent needless overlap.
The auditor general also revealed the lack of follow-up on the efforts made to reach the objective of increasing the number of small and medium sized exporters.
Some of these recommendations are not new; they were there in the 1986 report. Furthermore, in June 1996, the report of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade ran very much along the same lines.
Will the Liberal government finally listen to these recommendations and stop spending the money of Quebec and Canadian taxpayers without knowing whether the desired results are being obtained?