Madam Speaker, let me take a shot first at the Alliance in terms of where we are in the polls in our support in this country. We are certainly several percentage points higher than that party and it is going in the opposite direction.
I have no problem standing up in this House and saying that I will defend the workers. The member's party is not going to do that. This industry has already cost this country 80,000 jobs of which 20,000 were directly from this industry, high paying union jobs, however, 60,000 over the last decade and a half were in small employers who ran gas stations and did other things that were related to this industry.
The industry put those workers out on the street. These people did not get any of these tax breaks. They did not get any use out of these tax incentives. That is what is happening with this money. It is what will happen with this tax break that the industry is about to be given.