Mr. Speaker, NDP members let their partisanship stand in the way of helping Canadian families and our economy.
That is why the NDP voted against helping the manufacturing sector stay strong, against helping small business hire more people, against new help for families like the family caregiver and children's arts tax credits, and against the volunteer firefighter tax credit.
The NDP's anti-Canada agenda is even more alarming. At home the NDP opposes measures that are creating Canadian jobs. Then NDP MPs go abroad and attack Canada. In doing so, the NDP sides with a small group of radical activists and with its public sector union bosses against private sector union workers.
Canadians gave our Conservative government a strong mandate to stay focused on what matters: creating jobs and economic growth. The NDP's anti-Canada agenda is another worrying example that the ineffective, disunited NDP is unfit to govern.