Mr. Speaker, for the past two years, my riding has been through a lot of plant closures. It started with the textile mills in Huntingdon, and then the Gildan and Goodyear plants in Valleyfield, where more than 1,000 jobs were lost.
Then, last week, we learned that the closure of the Rio Tinto Alcan plant in Beauharnois would put 250 people out of work.
For the past two years, Quebec's manufacturing sector has been in crisis, but this government, with its right-wing non-interventionist ideology, has refused to acknowledge the problem, has failed to do anything about it, and has allowed the economy to wreak havoc.
How can the member explain the fact that, from the moment the Conservatives came to power, they abandoned Quebec's manufacturing sector? Factory workers in the manufacturing and forestry sectors have been abandoned. Can she explain to us why that is?