Madam Speaker, for months we have been hearing from the government that it is going to be there for the transportation industry and the aerospace sector, and it keeps talking about delivering a plan. It has been saying this since the spring. We have not seen it roll out a plan to ensure, as part of COVID recovery and getting through the recovery, that it is going to help protect workers. Whether there will even be a wage subsidy is uncertain. There is no stipulation that those jobs are actually tied to the wage subsidy.
We have been hearing from the workers in that sector, and they have been looking for support. We met with Unifor last week, and Unifor is talking about 11,000 workers who are at risk right now. They need a national aerospace industrial strategy that creates high-quality jobs, a strong supply chain, a thriving commercial and defence sector and also promotes Canadian-made aircraft in Canada and abroad.
Does my colleague agree that the government has been dragging its feet, and that given the importance of this sector in his riding and in my riding, as we both have aerospace jobs at risk—