Mr. Speaker, just before the 1997 general election Modes Conili received a $720,000 TJF grant to create new jobs. Yesterday the parliamentary secretary said that 162 people were working at the firm and they had applied for the jobs. That is simply false. Nobody applied for anything. The Quebec government has contradicted the parliamentary secretary, saying that it had been advised by Modes Conili that it was just a transfer of existing jobs. In other words, it was all a shell game.
Why is the parliamentary secretary telling the House that new jobs were created when she had to have known they were not?