Madam Speaker, it seems that time and time again when a member of the Liberal Party rises in the House to give a speech on this topic we get that warm, touchy-feely, feel good message about all the wonderful things we are doing to help these families. I heard the member talk about maternal leaves and all that, but dagummit, there are thousands and thousands of people across the country in this industry who are really hurting. The Liberal Party is not taking it seriously enough.
I have news for the member. There could be cattlemen suffering the same kind of thing just around the corner because of the trade breakdowns that could occur in our cattle industry, not to mention many agrifood and other natural resources where this is beginning to happen. It is happening because the government does not have the will or the fire in the belly that it takes to stand up to a bully and let him know we have had enough of this.
What do we have to do? How about loading up a busload of those cowboys and sending them down there to do the negotiating?
The Liberals should start acting like they mean business instead of this touchy-feely, feel good message about how they are going to make it wonderful for all our poor families out there by giving them a couple of hundred bucks here and there. They do not seem to understand the seriousness of it. They get up and do their fancy little dance around the issue with speeches in the House, a touchy-feely, warm, feel good thing, and then they leave here and go and drink their fine wine and eat their fat cheese.
When will they start thinking about the interests of the individuals out there who are truly suffering instead of all this warm, touchy-feely, feel good stuff that nobody is interested in? People want solutions. They do not want those kinds of speeches.