Mr. Speaker, to conclude the point I was making earlier, I am a living example of an entrepreneur who was forced by a financial institution to participate in the Small Business Loans Act despite the fact that I would have qualified for the loan anyway.
That seems to be falling on deaf ears on the Liberal side. It is a lesson that they should take to heart, because the criticism of the auditor general is that close to half of the loans administered by the program would not have to be given.
Why would they not want to address the inefficiencies in the program and thereby not require an additional billion dollars, half of which would be wasted because it was not required anyway? By streamlining the program they could free up many more billions just by administering the program efficiently.