Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for Winnipeg North for his important question.
He talked about the Crocus Investment Fund. There are examples that have worked well and others that have not worked so well.
For example, when the Ontario government abolished its tax credit, it implemented an action plan, the Ontario Venture Capital Fund, which is what the government is proposing today. For that fund to work, the labour-sponsored funds in Quebec had to invest heavily in it in order to sustain it.
We have concerns about a number of other aspects of the bill. That is why we proposed 24 amendments, the Liberal Party proposed 6 and the Green Party proposed almost 30. Some aspects of the bill need to be corrected.
This is fourth budget implementation bill I have debated in committee and, again, I see that none of the amendments were accepted, as was the case the last three times.
I do not see how I could accept such a budget when we made reasonable proposals to amend it. The government constantly says no.