Madam Speaker, I must first apologize for not making a French copy of my speech. I nearly managed to, but I did not have enough time.
I cannot explain this government's lack of empathy towards workers. I listened to the speeches given this week and, as I told my colleagues, it is as though the Conservatives were living in a glass bubble and came from another planet. They do not understand what is happening in my riding, for example. They do not understand that there is a forestry worker right now who is losing not only his job, but also his house. He will have to live in his truck and will have to start the truck's engine every so often to warm up. That is the truth.
That is part of the neo-liberal or Conservative philosophy. It is reminiscent of the Milton Friedman school, with its regulations and privatizations, this notion that the government does not have the right to interfere in the affairs of the nation.
But that—