Mr. Speaker, I appreciate that. I know the member well and I have great respect for him. We served at the municipal level at overlapping times. However, I must say that we are having a great deal of difficulty on this issue when we listen to that kind of speech.
Unless there has been a change, he is the labour critic. This is a question of taking away strikers' rights. There is no room for Liberal fence sitting. The Liberals are either on the side of the workers tonight when it matters or they are not.
I would like to know how the member could stand up and say that his caucus and his party cares about workers when it is easy to talk the talk and why they are not prepared, when it really matters, to stand up and walk the walk.