Mr. Speaker, yesterday, in typical Liberal fashion, the international trade minister only told us half the story about EDC loans.
In the last six years taxpayers have had to reach into their wallets and bail out just one arm of EDC to the tune of $640 million. That is how much money EDC has lost in bad loans to foreign countries, loans that were made so that foreign countries would buy products from some of Canada's biggest and most profitable corporations.
Why does the government think that Main Street should have to bail out Bay Street?