Mr. Speaker, the Liberals need to stop saying one thing when they mean another. Take the notion of pay equity. Canadians want anyone doing the same job to be paid the same. Same job, same pay, that is pay equity, except if you are a Liberal. To them the state should decide what your job is worth and which job should be paid the same as other jobs.
How does the state make this leap of logic? The Liberals cannot really say. But naturally they know better than workers, unions and employers what jobs are worth, and once that dollar figure has been pulled out of the Liberal hat, someone has to pay a lot of money, unless that someone is a Liberal. They fight for years not to have to pay the price of their own foolishness.
Equity means fairness and equal treatment. Only the Liberals could undermine this fine principle by using it to cloak arbitrary state intervention.
Canadians beware, fairness can become what the government says is fair not what citizens agree is fair in free negotiations. Is that the—