Madam Chair, the comparison the Minister made of this program between grubstaking and trappers isn't a very good comparison. I say this because the chances of a trapper becoming a millionaire is pretty slim. One of these guys could easily strike it rich and be millionaires, but there is no incentive for them to pay their money back. I would suggest that the department consider making this a forgivable loan program. If one of these guys does make it, he should pay us back whatever we gave him. A grubstake is a grubstake. If you do good, you pay me back. In the future, we should look at changing this program to a forgivable loan, so there is some incentive for them to pay us back if they get rich.
How do we know the results of this? Did these people report as to how successful they were? I presume most of them say they never found anything so, therefore, they never have to pay it back. How do we get a report back?