I'll be very brief.
Certainly this motion is along the lines that I think it should go. I'd like to say, with deference to Mr. Martin, that there's no question that the present announcement of $1 billion—not a small amount of dollars for issues that relate to what we're talking about today—for a community development fund and national initiative to help vulnerable communities and laid-off workers is a significant thing.
That's tied to the budget. There may be other things tied to the budget. I wonder how Mr. Martin can seriously say—and I know there's a measure of politics being played in this—that we need to do something when his leader, and in fact the Bloc Québécois as well, said they're going to oppose the budget before they've actually seen the budget, before they know what's there. How can you find yourself opposing something that does offer relief to the very issue that's pertinent to this motion? I find it somewhat hypocritical to say that we need to do something and then say, at the same time, while something is being done, “I oppose it”.
That's the comment I'd like to make. Thank you.