It's a subsidy. That's right. I hear other members across the way and within the Chamber who are finally realizing that this is actually a subsidy. I thank other members for pointing this out, for noting it and for being concerned.
It is actually a subsidy. They do not actually need it. It is a case of profitable companies which could go ahead and find the resources and the guarantees they need through other mechanisms. They are getting these things and they do not actually need them. Government is trying to solve a problem where a problem does not exist.
The real problem is that small businesses have an administrative nightmare, red tape, payroll taxes and high taxes generally which prevent them from hiring more people. That is the obstacle to more jobs in this country.
I remember during the last election campaign that I heard “jobs, jobs, jobs” from the Liberals.
I was a young lad at the time of the 1993 election, but if I think back I heard something then, and it was jobs, jobs, jobs. If I think about it again—