Mr. Speaker, the transitional jobs fund is beginning to look like a Liberal slush fund. First a Liberal bagman named Pierre Corbeil used these grants to shake down companies to make donations to the Liberal Party. Now we learn that just before the last election, the Prime Minister's personal assistant, Denise Tremblay, sat in on a meeting where a friend of the Prime Minister was applying for the grants. The bureaucrats certainly got the message. They came across with $164,000 in grant money for this guy.
Why did the Prime Minister use his influence to milk this fund for his friends?