I think that's consistent with the point that Mr. Osborne is making.
I know that the Business Council of Canada has also been highly critical of the bill. It has said that Ottawa wants Canadians to think that the bill will improve affordability for families by giving consumers more choice, but this is not its purpose or what it will achieve. There are a lot of concerns about the bill.
Of course, Conservatives support the idea of removing the efficiencies defence, but we would never claim that it would be a tool to actually reduce the price of groceries, because that would be a false claim.
Mr. Cross, I want to make sure that we get you back on the record about some of the things that you've said in the past. You said, “One manifestation of chronic weak business investment and low productivity is the OECD’s forecast that Canada’s per capita GDP growth between 2020 and 2060 will be the lowest among its 29 member nations”.
This is something that I think we really need to sound the alarm bells on. It's a very disturbing trend. One of the things you said that I thought was really quite apt was this: “There is a growing [sentiment in Canada] that Canada has wasted a decade of low interest rates on [more] government debt” rather than investing in “business investment”.
Can you elaborate on those sentiments?