Mr. Speaker, this is another example of NDP industrialized fearmongering. I suspect if the member is talking about the subsidies, then perhaps all those industries should get paid all the royalties and taxes they paid and all the employee benefits they have paid over the last centuries. I do not think that would be the case.
As for China, there is a reality here. By the way, more fearmongering that we should be bringing our salary scales back down to those levels of China. As long as I have ever dealt with any industrial user, any manufacturer, any retailer, I have never heard anybody say such a foolish thing, that we should be bringing our salary levels down to those in China. That is absolutely ridiculous.
We have in Canada something in which we take a lot of pride, our quality of life. Our standard of living is dependent upon those things that we are talking about in the bill. We are dependent upon industry and upon jobs being created. We do not want to bring salaries down to Chinese levels. Actually, we want to bring them up to American levels. That is where we have been going all along.
We want to increase our standard of living and our quality of life. That does not mean less salaries, that means more. This in fact will allow that to happen. Less money going to governments, more money going into exploration and more money going into industrial investment will bring more jobs, more activity and more wealth to the workers of this world. That is what we are trying to achieve. No, we are not trying to bring it down to China levels. We are trying to bring it up.
As for subsidies, as for standing on one's own, taxation changes or a reduction in taxes does not mean that it is a subsidy. It means that these industries are paying less to governments, which, by the way, mismanages most of those dollars. I would rather see industries managing their dollars for the economy as opposed to having the government manage those dollars. That is where we are heading and I would like to see a reduction in those dollars paid to government.