Mr. Speaker, I think people watching expect me to disagree with the leader of the official opposition, I just did not think it would be about something so fundamental. She is telling people tonight that Canada has never been so divided, never been so angry, with one region against another, and I disagree. What we have seen over these past two years has been Canadians stepping up for each other in extraordinary ways.
Canada has one of the highest vaccination rates of our peer countries around the world. Why? It is not because Canadians love getting needles. It is because Canadians trust science. Canadians trust each other to do the right thing. It is in our national psyche of being able to be there for our neighbours, being able to push a car out of a snowbank for a perfect stranger and being able to lean on each other. These are the things that define Canadians. What we saw through these past two years were people stepping up for our frontline health workers, stepping up for our grocery store clerks, leaning on each other, supporting our seniors, supporting our young people and young people stepping up to do what they could around the house to help out while their parents worked while they were all locked down. This is a story of a country that got through this pandemic by being united, and a few people shouting and waving swastikas does not define who Canadians are.