Mr. Speaker, if I did make any incorrect statement to the House about the minister and his meetings with representatives of the shipbuilding industry, I would certainly withdraw it. The information I had was that he refused to meet with representatives from the Atlantic provinces. Maybe I did not get the information correctly, and I apologize for that if I did not.
I am not interested in playing petty politics. This issue is too important to be taken up with what I said was correct or incorrect. It is too important for the parliamentary secretary to rise in his place and talk about a government with which the voters of Canada dealt six or seven years ago when they voted out the Conservatives and elected the Liberals. That is not what it is about.
The Liberals have been in power now for six years. In 1993 they became the Government of Canada. It is time for the parliamentary secretary, the minister and others over there to recognize they are now the government of the country. Canadian taxpayers and people involved in the shipbuilding industry in Canada expect them to make decisions for the benefit of the shipbuilding industry.
It is no good going back to Mulroney, Diefenbaker, Trudeau, Laurier, Pearson and others. People in Canada want the parliamentary secretary, the minister and the government to make decisions which will improve the shipbuilding industry in Canada today.