Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. My question is about the budget more generally.
The government wants to impose standards in long-term care facilities and seniors' homes, but it seems to me that, before it can impose standards, the government should be setting a good example.
One thing that is under federal jurisdiction is border control. March 2020 was too late to close the borders. January was too late to require travellers to have a negative test upon entry. It was too late to ask them to go into quarantine.
The situation in Montreal is fragile right now, because it is too late to close the borders because of the variants.
Do the federal Liberals think they are setting a good example, and is that why they think they can impose things on others?