We have a money losing company. In fact just last year it lost nearly $2 million. After finding two friends of the Prime Minister on its board, and after meetings in Ottawa, which it posted on its website, it comes up with a $10 million taxpayer backstop line of credit. The man supposedly in charge of all this pleads ignorance. I guess he backstops so many companies with $10 million loans and lines of credit that they just get lost in a blur. Maybe this is the question—
In the House of Commons on March 2nd, 2000. See this statement in context.