Mr. Speaker, many many years ago, I got my first job after studying engineering at Laval University.
It was at the Lauzon shipyard, which was called at the time Davie Shipbuilding. I worked there for several months as an electrical draughtsman. At the time, more than 1,000 people worked in the shipyard. There were ships everywhere. Some were in dry docks—there was the small dry dock and the big dry dock—and some were on slipways. Shipbuilding at the time was a flourishing business.
Vickers in Montreal, another shipyard in Sorel and Davie in Lauzon all had a lot of work, building lakers for private companies and ships for the military.
How did the government reduce such a flourishing industry to what it is today, absolutely nothing? What went wrong?