Madam Speaker, I listened to the hon. member's speech about his points of view on Bill C-3, which would see us doing away with our last influence on or ownership of anything to do with a public sector energy strategy, at least, or an energy strategy in the public interest, if we could put it that way.
Could the hon. member explain to me the motivation, this seeming passion, on the part of government and obviously on the part of his party to divest ourselves of any interest whatsoever in our energy sector? Why do he and his party think that all things publicly owned are bad and all things privately owned are good and somehow better run and better managed just because they are in the private sector?
I will let him answer, but I would argue that many Canadians want more government intervention in the energy sector at this time because they are facing spiralling, out of control energy and fuel costs. They want the government to take an active role. How does he juxtapose that reality with his party's and the government's fixation on privatizing everything in the energy sector?