Mr. Speaker, it appears that Les Confections St-Élie inc., a business in the Prime Minister's riding of course, received a lot of help from the Prime Minister. It received a $900,000 BDC loan, $285,000 in job creation grants and $165,000 from another company's grant all the while owing over $330,000 in back taxes. The company went bankrupt 18 months later.
How can the Prime Minister defend throwing all this corporate welfare at a failed company, which he knew would fail, just because it was in his own riding? How can the Prime Minister be so irresponsible with taxpayers' dollars?