We're talking about space procurement, procurement for the space economy. I'm talking about a buy Canadian rule that the government allegedly implements. How is that not related? It's very related. Of course, sovereignty means not being dependent on foreign countries for our space capabilities. That's something worth pursuing.
The Liberal Prime Minister gave a glowing speech, a very vague speech, at Davos, pretty much taking a swipe at what he calls “hegemons” without really mentioning which countries he's referring to and keeping it vague so he can play both sides. I'll leave it to the Liberal Prime Minister to discuss that, or maybe the Liberal members know which countries he's referring to.
Space matters. It matters for a number of things—for our defence, for our Arctic, for things like communications. It matters for disaster response, for things like agriculture, navigation, weather forecasting, telecommunications and national security and of course for the future of our economy. When we talk about the economy, we mean we want to talk about the Canadian economy for Canadians, not for a select few hand-picked projects that benefit Liberal insiders.
Canada has a proud history in space. We built the Canadarm. We helped define robotics in orbit. Canadian astronauts have inspired generations of young people to look at the stars and imagine something greater than themselves. Canadian scientists, engineers, machinists, programmers and entrepreneurs have made real contributions to humanity's exploration of space. Parts designed and made by Canadians are in the International Space Station, which is still orbiting Earth.
We should not be anti-space and shut down things like the $200-million space pad, which wasn't really a space pad. We thought we got a launch pad, but taxpayers ended up getting a gravel pit, which some are characterizing as a money pit.
This motion is not anti-science, although Liberals have accused us of being anti-science, and it's not anti-research. It's very much pro-research. We want to make sure the research money is not going to waste.
It's not anti-innovation. It is very much pro-innovation. It's also pro-accountability. “Accountability”, of course, is a word that does not exist in the vocabulary of Liberals. As a matter of fact, that word needs to be removed from their vocabulary before they buy their Liberal Party membership card. It's pro-taxpayer, making sure that for taxpayers—everyday Canadians who are working day in and day out to keep our country afloat—tax dollars are spent properly.
We also want to make sure we have results to deliver for Canadians, because what we've seen instead is a lot of Liberal rhetoric. It's pretty egregious. The current Liberal Prime Minister sings a lot of rhetoric, even more than the last Liberal prime minister, but he has nothing to show for it. I mean things like pipelines, for example. There is a lot of rhetoric on energy and infrastructure, but not a whole lot of results.
He seems to eat his own words. On trade, at first it was elbows up. Then it was elbows down, and who cares? Then it was, “Our relationship with the United States is a rupture, a weakness.” Then it was, “We're stronger together.” That was a lot of rhetoric from the self-proclaimed master negotiator, but not a whole lot of results. There's still no trade deal. Tariffs have doubled and tripled, and our manufacturing sectors and workers are being hit. Nobody on the Liberal benches seems to care, because they collect their paycheques regardless.
That's the thing between the private sector and the public sector. In the private sector, if your business fails and doesn't do well because there's no market for your idea or your product, you don't succeed. You go bankrupt or you have to close down. However, under Liberal ideology, the Liberals just keep printing money at the expense of taxpayers. They keep borrowing at the expense of taxpayers. They keep printing money—
