Mr. Speaker, we are not talking about what happened 150 years ago. We are talking about what he said himself here in the House on April 22.
While Liberals and Conservatives are feeding at the trough in the Senate, the current Conservative government is sitting idly by watching good middle-class jobs disappear. There were 20,000 jobs lost in April alone.
Rio Tinto is now completing the makeover after its takeover of Canadian aluminum giant Alcan by laying off hundreds of employees and stripping the Alcan name off the building.
Why did the Prime Minister approve selling off a major Canadian company with no guarantee to protect Canadian jobs?