Mr. Speaker, once again the hypocrisy of the leader of the NDP is astounding. It never fails to amaze me.
The member and his party are the ones who voted against the economic action plan before they even read it when it was introduced in the last budget.
They voted against the Conservative government making $3.7 billion in loans available to Chrysler Canada to draw on to keep auto workers employed. They voted against a $10.8 billion loan to General Motors to help protect auto workers' jobs. Let us be clear, these loans were needed to mitigate the job threats to the auto industry caused by the global recession. The NDP and their leader voted against these loans.
I need to have an answer from them. Why would they vote against a program that protected 52,000 jobs in the auto sector. Why would they vote against it?