Mr. Speaker, listening to my colleague, the member for Lotbinière, I had the impression he was on Sudafed, like the Team Canada hockey players. He was pumped. He should calm down.
I find it shocking that he would use a debate on C-28 to indulge in petty politics on the backs of storm victims. He tried to bash the Canadian government, which was present during this disaster and spared no effort to help victims. While the people of Lotbinière, Montérégie, and all over who suffered the effects of the storm appreciated the Canadian government's contribution, there is an attempt to play politics on the backs of the storm's victims.
I am extremely disappointed. I was familiar with the great decency and respect of the member for Lotbinière. Today, he has greatly disappointed me by saying that the Canadian government did not do its share. If the Canadian government had not done its share, if it had not contributed $9 out of every $10, if it had not sent the army, I do not know how serious this disaster could have become.
I ask the member for Lotbinière if he did not get carried away, and if he does not recognize that the Canadian government, through its Ministers of Agriculture, Human Resources Development and National Defence—and even his own leader, the Premier of Quebec, said so—demonstrated remarkable collaboration.
Why is the member for Lotbinière playing petty politics on the backs of storm victims, who are not interested in playing this game? Why has he gone so far as to use C-28 to criticize the Canadian government's response to the ice storm? He should be ashamed. He should apologize to all storm victims.