Mr. Speaker, when we deal with the private sector—and they are supposed to be the advocates of the private sector—we know, for example, that the banks lose more than 1% of the money they loan to small and medium size enterprises every year. Of course, in a market economy some people fail. But what is good about Canada is that so many are successful that we have a lot of prosperity in Canada today.
In the House of Commons on February 22nd, 2000. See this statement in context.