First off, this is the second committee that I'm on where we're dealing with this motion. While I appreciate that affordability is a crisis in our country and it's clear that people are struggling here at home and across the country, I think we're also seeing some serious theatrics from the Conservatives in trying to jam these motions into every single committee.
Also, as somebody who's been a member of Parliament for a while and was here during the dark days of Stephen Harper when it came to the arts community, it's pretty rich to hear Conservatives go to the wall for the arts. When they were in power, we saw some of the deepest cuts to arts and culture.
Also, on comments that the arts are suffering more than during COVID, I know Conservatives like to downplay the pandemic—