Madam Speaker, congratulations to you on your appointment as Acting Speaker.
I would like to congratulate my hon. opponent from across the way. He is a great speaker. He creates beautiful word pictures.
There is in this country a program called technology partnerships Canada. Its predecessor was called DIPP. This son of DIP took about $150 million of the money that had been allocated under DIPP, so the original purpose of TPC could not be met on those grounds alone.
I wonder whether the hon. member could tell us how much of the moneys that were handed out under DIPP have been repaid, at what rate and what is the interest that has been repaid to the government. One of the conditions under that program was that some of the money was to be returned. That is fiscal responsibility. Could he tell us?