Madam Speaker, the member can make sarcastic comments but I will not lower myself to such negativity.
I would point out that we have said this over and over again and the facts prove it, there was no billion dollar boondoggle. I would be surprised if they could find the word in the dictionary. In any event, no billion dollars were lost. He knows that but he continues to propagate the myth.
We are the government that released the audit and we are the ones who said that we would have the Auditor General report to committee four times a year on HRDC. This was at the same time that issue was being debated in the House. Members were scurrying across here asking the Minister of HRDC if she could prove this or prove that but at the same time they were denouncing publicly a program that they wanted.
The reality is that there were no billion dollars lost. They know that. Everyone on this side of the House knows that. The facts prove it and, quite frankly, it is a bit tiring listening to that nonsense.