Madam Speaker, the hon. member is right to situate what we are talking about in the context of this report within the larger context of a government that does not care about results. It seems to believe it ought to be judged on its intentions instead of on the results it produces. However, Canadians are struggling and suffering, and they are not comforted by the fact that the government purports to have good intentions.
There are other examples of this failure to be concerned with results that I was going to get to and did not have the chance. One issue we are studying right now at the government operations committee is indigenous contracting. The government has a policy that is supposed to benefit indigenous businesses, yet it has been inept at actually determining who and what an indigenous business is.
It has allowed non-indigenous businesses that are not on any recognized list created by indigenous groups, or on anyone's list but its own, to claim to be indigenous and to then benefit from these programs and asides. The effect of that is that the government is able to say, “Look at us, we are helping indigenous businesses.” Then we have the AFN coming before committee and saying that only a small percentage of those claimed indigenous businesses are actually indigenous businesses.
The government gets to make its claim, but the outcomes are nowhere near what it claims. I think that happens so much because the government simply does not care to measure the results. It only cares about trumpeting its good intentions.
Canadians are seeing through that because they are experiencing the negative effects of the NDP-Liberal government's policies.