Mr. Speaker, I have a question for my colleague. I thank him, by the way, because he made an excellent speech, which is not surprising for him.
The Minister of Industry and the Minister of Public Works and Government Services keep saying that establishing economic spinoff targets would be tantamount to interference.
I checked the definition of “interference” in the dictionary. It means intrusion. And an intruder is someone who forces himself on others without proper permission.
In this case, it is a government's duty to ensure the economic development of its territory. On the contrary, that is not interference. In my opinion, it is its business.
Consequently, I am asking my colleague to agree that what we are hearing repeatedly here is in fact the ideology of the Conservatives.