Madam Speaker, I would also like to congratulate all the small business owners and operators in my community, in Niagara Falls, Niagara-on-the-Lake and Fort Erie. As the member probably knows, we are a tourism community. Those tourism businesses employ over 40,000 workers. Prior to COVID, our community generated $2.4 billion in tourism receipts, and those 40,000 employees depend on international and domestic visitors to come to our community. A lot of local business owners currently benefit from our tourism economy, and our hope is to grow that. We should be talking about that. We should be talking about how we go about growing our tourism sector, as well as all our economic sectors, but we are precluded from doing that because the Liberal government does not want to produce those documents. Why is that?
In the House of Commons on October 24th, 2024. See this statement in context.