Mr. Speaker, the member for Medicine Hat and now the member for Kelowna are quite unsupportive of Bill C-21 as it applies to the financing of small businesses around Canada.
The premise of the argument of the member for Medicine Hat was that there was a lot of abuse by the banks of the SBLA.
Members who have been in small business will know that the banks administer the provision of the SBLA loans. The members for Medicine Hat and Kelowna have said that 40% of the loans under the SBLA would have been approved anyway by the banks. Their approach in respect of small business is not to look at the program and its abusers and to try to figure out how the program could work to the benefit of Canadian small business. Their approach is to kill the program.
Can the member for Kelowna tell me why you feel we should kill the program while we let the banks get off scot free? They are the ones that are abusing the program. You said the banks are allowing these loans to go forward. Why will the Reform Party not say that one of the solutions could be to look at the banks?