Mr. Speaker, let us look at this another way. In terms of these projects only 10% of the funding came from transitional jobs funds. The rest came from private sector investors, from private and public financial institutions, from local communities and even from a union investment fund.
Is the hon. member suggesting that these people did not know what they were doing or who they were partnering with? Is he suggesting that they did not believe these projects were the right thing to do in this region? They agreed that investments by the federal government along with their investments was the right thing to do to help create jobs in this area of very high unemployment.