Mr. Speaker, in regard to the shipbuilding industry the Prime Minister wrote: “The challenge for governments, firms, workers and other interested parties is to exploit all available...opportunities”, which begs the question of why the industry minister does not want to reconvene a meeting of all stakeholders to come up with a comprehensive industrial strategy for shipbuilding in this country.
I wish to give the government the opportunity to speak directly to many of the workers who are with us today. Why does this country not have an industrial strategy for a comprehensive program of shipbuilding?