Madam Speaker, I appreciate that my colleague from Niagara Centre brought this motion forward.
If this was such a huge issue for him and his constituents and certainly for his region, earlier this year the member for Mississauga EastâCooksville brought up a similar motion to study the skilled labour shortage in the greater Toronto and Hamilton areas. At that time, Conservative members of the committee asked why we would not expand this study to include a Canada-wide study into the skilled labour shortage, and the Liberals at that time refused that amendment.
If it is important now, why was it not just as important then? We could have started this study in committee in this session, had the Liberals supported that amendment.