I was about to bring it back, Mr. Chair. I was, but Mr. MacGregor wanted clarification on that point.
When I was going to bring it back, I was going to simply say that in light of the fact that we continue to deal with COVID-19, we must recognize that the state, as a whole, has a responsibility. Naturally the NDP will understand the responsibility of the state in a particular way, one that seeks to put in a place of primacy working class Canadians.
Who can forget the very famous poem recited by Tommy Douglas? It's an interesting fact that it wasn't Tommy Douglas who came up with the Mouseland poem and fable. It was someone else, but either way, the idea is that the working class should be at the very core of what parliamentarians are looking at and who they are seeking to support.
Of course, he used the analogy of the mice and the black cats—the black cats, of course, being the capitalist class, and the mice being the working class—