Mr. Speaker, that must be a pretty recent development.
Someone eventually got $1.19 million from the suspect trust fund. That someone was Claude Gauthier who had already purchased land from the Prime Minister's golf course and donated $10,000 to the Prime Minister's election campaign. Soon after the business now being run by Gauthier got the money, it laid off all but 62 of the original 115 employees for a net job loss of 53 jobs.
Since this grant did not create jobs, was it simply a thank you to the Prime Minister's friend?