Mr. Speaker, what we are tasked with here today is to get to the essence of it.
My colleague made a number of comments that I fully agree with. There is a gap growing between the haves and the have-nots. I also agree that the government is more focused on the haves and the have-mores.
The parliamentary secretary posed an absolutely legitimate question. The answer was “can they not be compassionate?”
According to the 2008 Stats Can report, this would impact fewer than 500 Canadians. Could the member speak to that, if in fact those are the numbers the NDP is working with?