Mr. Speaker, the PMO was directly involved with the HRDC minister's office to ensure that the TJF subsidy for the brewery got approved at $15,000 per job. This is precisely the sort of interference that HRDC officials have been complaining about in their radio ads. Moreover, after the interest free loans from Canada Economic Development were included, the cost per job shot up to $20,600, exactly the type of problem that CED audits warned about.
If these types of programs are so legitimate in their own right, why do they require so much political interference?