Madam Speaker, I want to thank my colleague from Saanich—Gulf Islands for her wisdom and her history. She often shares in this place unique history that all of us as members could benefit from. One of the history points she is mentioning is the fact that we have an economy that has largely been a rip-and-extract economy that just exports raw product elsewhere.
We need to have an industrial strategy. It is the 21st century. Dinosaur parties in here keep thinking they are the Hudson's Bay Company and that they can just keep extracting whatever they want and keep selling whatever they want to anybody, with no value added. That does not help workers. They have the skills and the access to the immense technology we have; we should be developing everything from A to Z right here in Canada, and we can produce those products and export them too.
We need to have an economy that truly matches the industrial and innovative strength we have in this country. We have so much more to offer the world, and the Conservatives and the Liberals are letting us down.