Mr. Speaker, that was certainly a content based question. Let me respond to what my colleague has said.
The fact is that the internal audit did find $1 billion worth of programs that were not properly accounted for. In fact there were many, many examples where money went to all kinds of projects where not a single job was created, not one job.
That sets aside whether or not jobs would have been created if that money had been left in taxpayers' pockets in the first place. We argue that a dollar left in the taxpayers' pockets is far more effective than a dollar in the hands of a bureaucrat or a politician, and my friend just made that case for me.