Mr. Speaker, here comes another due diligence problem.
Yesterday the Minister of Industry admitted that last year he received only $19 million in Technology Partnerships Canada repayments. That is a mere fraction of the billion-plus dollars that have been doled out.
Corporate welfare is alive and well in Canada, is it not?
What is the minister doing to accelerate the TPC repayments, or is it true that he does not really expect any of these repayments to occur anyway?