Mr. Speaker, it is easy for the member to stand up and spout off all of these wonderful things that the government is looking at perhaps proposing to do somewhere down the line that might help or might not help.
What the people who were here last week were saying to us was that there is really nothing in their experience and in their understanding of what is happening in their industry and their community. There is no leadership. There is nothing in the budget that gives them any hope, for example, in the auto sector there is no strategy coming forward.
We are watching the demise of industries, forestry, the auto sector, going down the river in this country with each day that goes by. Yet, we have a government that is experiencing record high surpluses in its budget and there is nothing there to respond to the very real and heartfelt needs of those workers who were here last week telling us that they need answers. They want leadership. They want a vision for this country and they are not getting it.