Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to point out that, with Mr. Kelloway's amendment, effectively, he wants to push any timely recommendations as far back as possible to give the government as much clearance as possible so that they can either let this story die over the summer....
You know, as responsible parliamentarians, if we expect to have a government—a minority government, I'll just remind everyone—that will listen to Canadians and listen to their representatives, it's important for us to be able to make immediate recommendations that the government will see and hear, and to have those recommendations.... We may find through the process that there are important public policies, such as not financing with federal tax dollars, through the Canada Infrastructure Bank, steel, aluminum and shipbuilding jobs in another country, particularly China. This is an area that Chrystia Freeland, the Minister of Transport, has been very public about; she has huge concerns. Therefore, I think we need to be able to push those in power positions, positions of leadership, so that they immediately act on something.
With all due respect to the analysts, who do very good work, I do not need an analyst to give me a data-driven response for something that I know is wrong. Outsourcing Canadian jobs is always wrong. It's even worse when we have these unjustified steel and aluminum tariffs.
I hope Liberals will understand that. I hope they will not support this amendment.
Thank you.