Madam Speaker, there are many areas in which the government has helped people in dealing with COVID-19, and as an opposition member, I have contributed to pushing the government to do the right thing.
One thing I like about this motion is that it adds restrictions on executive compensation. It does not go far enough in terms of restrictions on shareholder compensation and shareholder dividends. We have seen how the big three telecom companies have taken almost half a billion dollars in wage subsidies. Imperial Oil has taken money and private long-term care homes have taken millions of dollars and then paid out shareholder dividends.
I would like to ask the hon. member if he learned anything from what the Conservatives did with the GM bailout. They lost hundreds of millions of dollars and did not have any rules or any kind of package to keep GM in the country, so GM closed its plants and left. Is the government—