Mr. Speaker, it sounds like the industry minister is wimping out.
The federal government's own report, “Sustaining Growth: Human Development and Social Cohesion” listed six productivity drivers and not a single one was health care. The report cited a better business environment, trade, innovation and investment in research and development. The report recommended personal income tax cuts as one of the best remedies to Canada's productivity problem.
Will the Minister of Industry tell the House who Canadians should believe, his own government's productivity research or the ramblings of a Prime Minister who once thought he invented the GST?