Mr. Speaker, not only do I wish to congratulate my Progressive Conservative colleague and counterpart, but I am going to ask him a question in French.
Yes, we agree with an external audit but, as a member in an area of high unemployment, does he not find it strange that there were more projects in ridings with much lower rates of unemployment, when his own constituents were suffering?
I know that his colleague in the New Democratic Party told me that he was feeling the effects of this situation because the unemployed do not necessarily have money to invest in a project and because, in other more prosperous regions, such as the present minister's riding, there is more money to launch projects to help the unemployed. How would he describe this situation?
Would it not be better to have a criterion based on the number of unemployed people for this program, which is aimed at the unemployed? Would he agree that this should be the criterion for deciding how to distribute funds fairly?