Mr. Speaker, one of the ways the minister has tried to explain public money going into areas that did not qualify under her own rules was to talk about “pockets of high unemployment”. She actually does not seem to understand this concept herself and in the House has explained what these pockets mean in three different ways.
Today in a rather interesting effort at damage control her department released an undated document which purported to explain this concept of pockets. She did not tell MPs about this, but she said that the pockets were applied differently in different regions.
I wonder if the minister could explain this whole—