Mr. Speaker, I followed closely the comments by the member from, I believe, Edmonton—Strathcona.
Before I put a question to the member, I want to acknowledge, if I am not ruled out of order for doing so, that one of the really vocal and articulate critics of the flawed decision of a previous Liberal government to gut the Foreign Investment Review Agency was in fact our current Deputy Speaker, the member for Elmwood—Transcona, who of course was previously the member from Winnipeg--Birds Hill.
I think what we have here is a serious difference of opinion in this debate about the causes of what is incontestable in our current economy and the causes of what has been happening over a period of years in terms of substantial job losses, and particularly the transformation of good quality jobs, well paid jobs and more secure jobs, into bad jobs.
Also, there are the numbers of Canadian businesses that are indeed increasingly vulnerable to foreign takeover. It is not just that they are vulnerable, because we already have had 11,000 such takeovers presided over by the Liberals doing absolutely nothing about it.
The Conservative member on the government side has been rejecting the central proposition of the motion before us, which is that the increasing vulnerability of Canadian businesses to foreign takeovers is a result of the income trust tax decision. I want to ask the member if he could share with the House his view of what it is, therefore, that is putting Canadian enterprises at risk and making them more vulnerable. What is--