Mr. Speaker, Modes Conili got nearly three quarters of a million dollars in a job grant, even though no jobs were going to be created. Pierre Côté, the head of the commission governing working conditions in the ladies clothing industry, confirmed yesterday that the jobs were transferred, not created, and he had assured Quebec regulators that no jobs would be lost.
He told the Montreal Gazette :
We were advised that the employees were going to be transferred to Conili Star.
If Mr. Côté knew it and the Quebec regulators knew it, why did HRDC cut them a cheque?