Mr. Speaker, the member for Kings—Hants had it right, that this ought not to be simply a partisan exercise.
Nevertheless, we do need to acknowledge where we came from. Governments in this place were never NDP governments. They were Liberal and Conservative governments over succeeding decades and they pushed the debt down to the provinces. The NDP has never formed government, to my knowledge, in the House of Commons, so I do not know why provinces would be included in a motion trying to direct our federal government to take responsibility for income inequality.