Mr. Speaker, again the hon. member from the Reform Party has a good question but he is way off base. He does not know what he is talking about.
The reason I am saying that is the Royal Canadian Mint is building a plant in Winnipeg for a price tag of some $30 million. The mint is not using taxpayers' money. It has borrowing authority. It borrows from banks. A person who wants to buy a car does not come to the government, that person will go to the bank. That is what the Royal Canadian Mint did.
The mint is asking parliament to increase its borrowing authority from $50 million to $75 million. The plant it is building in Winnipeg was started last March, before presentation of this bill. The mint went to wherever it went and borrowed the money. It is not taxpayers' money. There is a cliche in that. If the Royal Canadian Mint makes money, Canada wins. If the Royal Canadian Mint, which is a crown corporation, loses money, the government is liable and the taxpayers are going to pick up the tab. The money used to build that plant in Winnipeg is not taxpayers' money, it is money that the corporation borrowed from an outside source.