Mr. Speaker, the situation in Cape Breton is becoming desperate. Today more layoffs were announced at the Cape Breton Development Corporation in addition to the more than 500 men who are already off the job.
The government says there is no Devco without Phalen, so Devco is now on a 15 month plan.
This government denied the 15 month plan existed and it denied that the cabinet memo existed.
Why will the government not be honest with Cape Bretoners and tell them that, yes, the government has failed to make Devco commercially viable and is now in the process of pulling the plug on industrial Cape Breton?
Honestly, that is all we are looking for. Is that too much for the people of Cape Breton to ask?