Mr. Speaker, in response to the question from my Bloc Québécois colleague, the member for Winnipeg North told us to correct him if he was wrong. Here is the situation. The federal government paid incentives to get people to buy electric cars. Seventy per cent of the funds in Canada come from Quebec. Quebec dealerships, small and medium-sized businesses, were the ones that had to provide that money. They provided that money because the government, deciding not to have Parliament sit, could not appropriate the funds. At that time, the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Industry met with Quebec dealers, looked them in the eyes, and told them that they would appropriate the funds, that the money to reimburse them would be in the next estimates, and that they had their word.
We have gotten the estimates, which we are still debating today, and there is not a penny for Quebec dealerships. It is not just a matter of saying that the coffers were empty. There was a promise to appropriate the funds. Where is that money, and does the parliamentary secretary believe that his government owes money to Quebec dealers, who provided those funds?