Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The NDP leader was given an opportunity yesterday to demonstrate that he stood by his principles. As I noted, he ripped up the agreement, but then he voted to back the government up repeatedly. He said, “the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people”. He said, “The Liberal government will always cave to corporate greed, and always step in to make sure the unions have no power.” Yesterday he was given an opportunity to stand by those words and to stand by his principles.
Conservatives agree that the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests, so Conservatives put forward another motion of non-confidence in this costly and corrupt Liberal government. The best part of the motion of non-confidence was that it contained entirely, in terms of the text of the motion, those very words—the words of the leader of the NDP. Incredibly, the leader of the NDP, along with NDP MPs, voted against the non-confidence motion.
In so doing, the leader of the NDP demonstrated that his words mean absolutely nothing. He sold out yet again to Justin Trudeau. In so doing, he sold out workers, he sold out Canadians and he sold out his purported principles—principles that evidently mean nothing. When he had an opportunity to stand by them, he ran to the rescue of Justin Trudeau yet again.
Why would he do that? Very simply, he wants his $2.3-million pension. He has now come up with new terms to the NDP coalition agreement whereby the leader of the NDP gets his pension, Justin Trudeau gets his power and Canadians get the bill.
If I am in any way wrong about that, then there's a very good way to clear it all up. The NDP have an opportunity to clear it all up right here, right now. If it's not about Jagmeet Singh's $2.3-million pension, if it's all one big misunderstanding—