No, Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives do not deserve the confidence of Canadians.
They have turned their economic stimulus program into a vehicle for cronyism that is as bad as it was in the darkest, bluest days of the old régime before the Quiet Revolution.
On their watch, the condition of the road in front of one's is once again directly related to whether one voted for the right party during the last election.
In Quebec, Conservative ridings are getting almost three times more infrastructure funding than other ridings.
This kind of cheap cronyism no longer belongs in Quebec. We thought that we had seen the last of it 50 years ago, but half a century later, the Conservatives are reviving all the old skulduggery.
We knew that the Conservatives' social values were outdated by a century or two, but now it is clear that their political values are just as archaic.