Mr. Speaker, the hon. minister has not addressed the question at all. The hon. minister must recognize at least at one point in his lifetime that he has made a mistake.
It is interesting to hear this minister, not only today but on other days, blather on about the fact that Canadian taxpayers are not on the hook for the bad loans of EDC. Let me read for the hon. minister a quote from the EDC which does not see it that way: “It is a fact that the Canadian government has invested in EDC in the form of equity, which makes the Government of Canada EDC's sole—”