You see, it's a question of language right now.
Let's have a reasonable discussion on the privatization of public assets. We are opposed. In general, the Conservatives are in favour. As for the Liberals, we did not know their position and it was not made clear, especially during the election campaign.
If the Liberals had been honest during the campaign and had said, “We can only reinvest in public infrastructure through tolls, through user fees, and through privatization of those assets”, then people might have chosen something different, but that's not what they heard. They heard that there will be deficits so that the government can invest and renew the infrastructure.
Minister, once again I'm asking you, where was there any mention of privatization, user fees, and tolls?
One more thing I notice is that since then we haven't really heard those words. We hear about “asset recycling”, or “asset revitalization”, or the new expression now, which is “a flywheel of institutional capital participation”. Every economist, everybody who is in the know, understands that those are buzzwords for privatization, for user fees, and for tolls, starting with Andrew Coyne and going with Mr. Steven Gordon, who was saying the same thing.
Once again, where was this commitment to privatize, to stream assets, or to impose tolls and fees?