Madam Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague from Edmonton Griesbach for pointing out that our economic planning in Canada has been to ignore Canadian jobs in order to have a rip-and-strip economy where raw resources are pulled out and shipped overseas without additional value added and without providing jobs for Canadian workers, such as with raw logs, raw bitumen and so on.
I want to ask my hon. colleague whether he has looked at the literature. Canada is always plagued by falling behind in productivity. Productivity as a measurement improves whenever the ratio of goods that have received value added, manufactured goods, grows in relation to the export of raw, unprocessed goods. Would he agree with me that it is time Canada actually paid attention to jobs for Canadian workers and not ship out more trees, more fish, more bitumen without the processing that brings growth and productivity to our economy?