Mr. Speaker, I was having some meetings but I noticed that my hon. colleague, the official languages critic for the NDP, was here in the House to speak in this debate. I just noticed that we have had over the past day and a half very good debates in the House on copyright reform. Different parties have come forward with their views and hopefully that legislation will go to committee.
Obviously, there is plenty of room for discussion and debate with regard to foreign direct investment, the degree to which it is beneficial to Canada and the degree to which the government should or should not respond to the regime in which we approach these considerations, but there is no need to yell and scream and attack people's motives on this issue. There are plenty of examples.
As a matter of fact, the largest employer in the riding of the NDP member for Burnaby—New Westminster is Electronic Arts Sports, an American-owned video game software company that is hiring thousands of his constituents in Burnaby—New Westminster in the video game and software development industry. It is massively profitable. That is a direct example of foreign direct investment into his own riding. That is the largest employer in his riding, with high-paying, high-quality jobs in the tech sector. That is foreign direct investment hiring Canadians.
There are examples, certainly with regard to natural resources in different regions of the country that have different pressures and different dynamics, and members opposite are more than welcome to raise those concerns. We can have a debate about them and that is fine. However, the one thing I wanted to underline is that it is not all bad but it is not all good and the government has a responsibility to make decisions that are in the best interest of Canadians, the net best interest as the legislation describes.
What I wanted to clarify is the member's attack, frankly, on the members of Parliament from Saskatchewan. There are 14 members of Parliament elected from the province of Saskatchewan and 13 of the 14 are Conservatives. It is different when one is on the governing side of the House of Commons. I can say that the members of Parliament who are over here, including you, Mr. Speaker, and I see the member from Saskatoon and others, work incredibly hard, and just because they do not turn red and yell it into a television camera does not mean that they are not working very hard for the people of Saskatchewan. I can say that they are.
This is a very difficult issue and they took their responsibilities seriously to balance the best interests of all of Canada and their constituents, and they did their job.