Mr. Speaker, I have been following today's debate and I have heard from two parties who said that no matter what changes, their proposed course of action, which existed a month ago, is going to be pursued with even more vim and vigour now, despite the fact that fundamentally the economics have changed. In fact, the motion in front of us today states that the world has changed and new numbers are needed, yet the ideology that seems to support certain courses of action has not produced a different course of action, and that worries me.
However, the question I have is this. I have also heard today about this so-called abandonment of the manufacturing sector by the leader of the Liberal Party. What I do not understand is that when asked whether we should depend on one single source of manufacturing in Ontario, the leader said no, we need to diversify and not put all our eggs in one basket. In the same way, we should not put all our eggs in one basket in the resource sector. We need to diversify. There was never ever, ever a statement regarding walking away from manufacturing or from the auto industry.
What was the member quoting when the statement was made suggesting that the leader of the Liberal Party wants to walk away from manufacturing in southern Ontario? I have never heard him say that.