Mr. Speaker, I want to wish all my colleagues an excellent Earth Day.
Today I am speaking as the Bloc Québécois aerospace critic.
We are very happy that the budget is finally acknowledging the aerospace sector. Getting there took a lot of work. The Bloc Québécois really took on the role of patient teacher.
I myself have had to explain repeatedly that air transportation is not the same thing as the aerospace industry. Airlines are one thing, but construction, maintenance, parts recycling, a significant research and development hub and our primary export sector is quite another.
Apparently the message has gotten through at last. The budget even pairs “strategic” and “aerospace” in the same sentence.
We know—