Mr. Speaker, I really admire my colleague's optimism.
On the other hand, I have to wonder if the Conservatives live on the same planet as the rest of us and if they know Canada as I know it. It seems they often tend to ignore reality.
For instance, for someone who lives in Watson Lake, in Yukon, there is a town on both sides of it—one is six hours away and the other is seven hours away. That is a little far to go to work in the next town. The same is true for many towns at the end of peninsulas, at the other end of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, for instance.
In the day-to-day reality of people's lives, things do not work the way the Conservatives predict they will.
Does my colleague think this is a question of ignorance or apathy on the Conservatives' part?