Mr. Speaker, I think the answer is pretty obvious. It is to have a full public inquiry. We need someone who is independent to investigate these matters. We have the Ethics Commissioner who is doing some of that, but under a very limited scope. We need an independent investigator who has a broad mandate to chase down all the different leads, corners and twists and turns that this story has taken. Only if we have that are people going to be satisfied that we are getting to the bottom of what is going on and that we are getting the truth.
Trying to distract from the need for a public inquiry to get to that truth, using jobs as an excuse not to get to the bottom of what happened is a mistake and it is a little hard to take from a party that I watched ram through a bill to help outsource the maintenance work of Air Canada workers. It is a party that railroaded workers with back-to-work legislation. They were on a simple rotating strike, going out just a few days a month. The Liberals said that it was a crisis and they had to legislate them back to work.
This is a government that has done damage to workers not just by commission, but by omission, by rolling over when GM said it was going to shut down an award-winning productive plant and move that work out of the country. It is a government that stood silent while a Crown corporation ordered a whole bunch of railcars from a German company to be produced in the United States instead of requiring any percentage of Canadian content.
It is a government that still, after years of promising, has refused to change the legislative regime to protect the pensions of workers when their company has gone bankrupt. I am thinking of Sears, of Stelco workers and others who have watched their pensions disappear.
If we want to talk about jobs, I would be happy to have a whole other debate about jobs and what the government could do to save a lot of jobs and save the pensions of a lot of Canadians. The fact is that it is not happening and these jobs came up to cover what Liberals were doing for their corporate buddies in a board room.