Mr. Speaker, in 1997 an audit of TJF projects in Quebec and Atlantic Canada revealed that grants were too political, that eligibility rules were bent, and that job creation figures were inflated. In fact it described the job creation numbers as misleading and said that pressure to expedite these grants was exerted from the political level.
Given the fact that no action was taken to fix this problem, why should Canadians believe that this program was not working exactly as the Liberals intended, to send out grants for political gain and nothing else?