Mr. Speaker, the leader of the NDP was completely wrong when he started to attack Canada's energy and natural resources sector.
In my home province of Manitoba, mining is the second-largest industry, directly employing over 6,100 people, particularly in the north.
Manitoba's NDP premier said that the province's mining industry was “providing high-paying jobs and supporting our northern communities”. Unbelievably, the federal NDP leader believes these jobs are a disease.
It is now time for Manitoba NDP MPs, such as the member for Winnipeg Centre and the member for Churchill, to tell the House if they think the work their constituents are doing is a disease.