Madam Speaker, I think I understood the hon. member for Pickering—Ajax—Uxbridge to mean that he believes there is a role for government to intervene in and regulate the energy marketplace that, frankly, is not serving Canadians very well at this point in time.
I realize the member is an authority on the subject. I have heard him speak about energy prices many times in the House of Commons. I firmly believe he is genuine in what he is saying, but I would ask him to clarify something for me.
Is it his feeling or point that government can and should set national energy policies for the well-being of Canadians or does he believe, like we heard from the Tories, that we should let the free hand of the marketplace prevail and it will find its own natural level?
That is what I would like to understand a little more clearly from the hon. member.