Mr. Speaker, the government and the Prime Minister really need to decide whose side they are on.
The Canadian government recently gave Bombardier millions of dollars in corporate welfare. In return, the company laid off workers while giving multi-million dollar bonuses to its executives. The rich get richer, the workers suffer, and the government simply shrugs as if everything is fine.
When the court allowed U.S. Steel to walk away from its pension obligations, the government and the Prime Minister simply shrugged and said that they are engaged. When U.S. Steel was given permission to cut off funding for pensioners' health care benefits, while at the same time sitting on millions of dollars in cash and giving its executives lavish bonuses, the government and the Prime Minister simply shrugged and said that they are engaged.
Well, the workers and pensioners in Hamilton want to know: On whose behalf are they engaged? It certainly is not the pensioners or the workers.