Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Human Resources Development likes to use the term pockets of unemployment. There is no mention of pockets of unemployment in the criteria for HRDC. I assume she was referring to the ridings of Sarnia and Hamilton Mountain which saw two companies pull out and move to the minister's riding. Her riding received close to $2 million in TJF funds, yet the minister's riding did not qualify for TJF.
Did the minister use her cabinet clout as a minister to have her riding qualify?