My friend the secretary of state, the former junior minister, says “nonsense”, but it is a matter of record. It was part of his platform.
We have seen the effect of those types of programs in the past, whether it is the recent pork barrelling of the newly departed solicitor general or a coffin manufacturing company in Cape Breton that was funded by the federal government for three years and did not sell a single coffin as far as I know.