Mr. Speaker, that is patently untrue. Let us review the facts again. The transitional jobs fund and the Canada jobs fund were programs and grants to help communities of high unemployment and to provide opportunities for work for men and women in those ridings, and those ridings include ridings held by the New Democrats, the Reform, the Bloc, the Tories and the Liberals.
In the House of Commons on February 18th, 2000. See this statement in context.