Mr. Speaker, it is not true that this program has created 35,000 jobs. I challenge the minister to table any document that supports that figure.
Not only does this program have a dismal record of job creation, it has completely failed to recoup any of the grants it has given. It has recouped less than 2% of the grants that it has given to this date and, according to the minister's own internal documents, will never recoup more than one-third of what it gives out.
Even beyond this, we cannot even know how much of the grants have been repaid because it is under a cloak of secrecy imposed by the minister himself. When will the government finally be accountable to taxpayers and put an end to this--