Just to finish that sentence—and I certainly appreciate MP Vecchio's intervention—it went from 150 to 320, and this year we upped it again. Saint John—Rothesay received 425 Canada summer jobs. That's an investment of $1.3 million in this riding for students. It's incredible.
These are the things we should be talking about. These are the things we should be working on, not “Why did Prime Minister Trudeau and the Liberal government prorogue Parliament? We need to study this.” Again, what frustrates me.... Look, I would be the first one—trust me, some of my colleagues would know—to say, “Hold on here. Look, the Prime Minister may need to say something here.” But no. No, no, no. He's already said it.
MP Turnbull's amendment is more than fair, because the Prime Minister has already given the reasons he was proroguing Parliament. Again, what's the right word? I need to research that for the next time. It's looking for a question instead of the answer, or a problem for the solution. Let's call a spade a spade. The real issue here is that the Conservative Party doesn't have the answers they want. It's not that there haven't been answers; they're just not the answers that they think work for them.
I'm not sure who is in the rooms giving advice or doing the polling, but I guess there's somebody somewhere in the Conservative Party on somebody's shoulder, or a pollster or somebody somewhere who is saying, “This is an issue for you. This is an issue that Canadians care about. This is something you need to keep moving on.”
You know the adage that it's already baked in. We've talked about this. The public has seen it. The Prime Minister has testified.