Mr. Speaker, when the pandemic hit, all of us were deeply uncertain. We had no idea what we were going into. There was a moment where I thought Parliament really rose to the occasion when it moved to committee of the whole and members were able to ask thorough questions of ministers to get a better sense in order to reassure people. We came through that first wave.
The second wave now is much worse than the first: the insecurity with small business and the crisis we are facing. I am sensing from government members that they have just gone back to the old ways of saying they do not want to deal with Parliament and we are on our own, but then they want us to back them up.
I want to ask my hon. colleague about the importance of Parliament working together at this time to be reassuring Canadians that getting them through the worst economic and medical catastrophe in a century is job one for all parliamentarians. It does not matter what party or part of the country we are in; we are in this together. That is not the sense we are getting from the government right now.