Madam Speaker, I will pick up where the member left off. In the member's concluding remarks, he talked about talking points and suggested that they were just Liberal talking points on this. Yet, I cannot help but wonder if that is exactly what we are hearing from the other side.
The talking points have changed throughout the entire dialogue. The member talked about “rushing blindly” into this. I will give him the benefit of the doubt that maybe he was not around to hear the discussions a couple of years ago. The leader of the opposition was, at times, basically saying, “You need to just make any deal and take any deal that Donald Trump will give you. We need to a get deal on the table and signed now.”
The reality of the situation is that we fought hard for the protection of Canadian workers. We fought hard for a good deal, and what we have seen come out of this is exactly that.
I wonder if the member can explain why it is that he is now suddenly talking about rushing blindly into this, when the Conservatives' position at every stop of the way has been “Why aren't you getting us a deal? You need to make a deal right now.”