You mentioned competitiveness with the United States, which Conservatives have been pushing Liberals to pay attention to for the last 10 years. Conservatives want Canadians to beat the United States, but of course, now the U.S. is both Canada's biggest customer and competitor.
I have a question for the long term that I think all of us should be grasped with.
What Canadians should be focusing on is what Canada can control, not unpredictable or hostile actions from anyone else. Here's the issue. Your government has the ability to allow Canada to compete by removing the federal costs and red tape placed on Canadian workers and businesses, like the oil and gas cap, the federal industrial carbon tax, drilling and tanker bans, gas and diesel vehicle bans and innovation censorship laws. The United States—our biggest customer and competitor—does not impose any of these costs or red tape on their private sector proponents, entrepreneurs and investors.
When will you actually deal with all of these issues—some of which are also in Bill C-5—so that Canadian entrepreneurs and business owners can compete with the United States and we can be self-reliant, affordable and secure?