Mr. Speaker, what kind of surprising information can be found in the Minister of Human Resources Development's list? According to it, my riding supposedly received $6.4 million from the transitional jobs fund, with the potential creation of 1,031 jobs.
According to the local employment centre in my riding, the amount was in fact $2.3 million and the jobs created, 300. It seems to me that the minister's 10,000 pages and lists are more about quantity than quality of data.
Why does she insist on the amounts announced and the potential jobs, instead of giving the figures for what was really achieved? The program is over.
I encourage my colleagues to check the figures and publicize the errors, in order to preserve the true intention of these programs—