Mr. Speaker, in 1997, the Anjou firm of International Minicut received $360,000 to create 36 jobs. It was able to create only 33 of the 36. As a result, Human Resources Development Canada requested, according to the rules, that $30,000 be reimbursed. Nothing like that happened in the case of Placeteco, however. No invoices, no jobs created, and $1 million gone.
Are we to understand that, in the case of Placeteco, they are trying to cover the Prime Minister's buddies?