Madam Speaker, the remarks we just were entertained with are quite interesting. It is really important that people understand what the Conservative Party is. It is not the traditional party. People who follow the debate on the economy, on social programming and how it is that Canada is doing, I want them to understand this is not the traditional Conservative Party.
This is what Kim Campbell, former prime minister of Canada, has to say about the leadership and direction of the Conservative Party today: “I've never joined the Conservative Party of Canada.” She mentions Joe Clark, another Progressive Conservative prime minister: “I think Joe Clark expressed it that he didn't leave the party, the party left him. It is not the Progressive Conservative Party [today].”
We just heard a litany of issues downplaying Canada. As I have indicated, the leader of the Conservative Party and members of his caucus can go around Canada talking about how bad things are and saying Canada is broken. A vast majority of the things they are saying are absolutely not true and definitely misleading, whether it is the leader in the many town halls he has or through their social media or their emails. They send out millions of emails. Canada is not broken.
We think of the progressive nature the Conservatives used to have. They talk about poverty and so forth. When it came time to stand up and vote on issues, I listed just a few programs. There is the disability program. It is the first time we are establishing disability payments, the single largest budgetary item from the last budget, where $200 every month will be going to individuals.
There is the pharmacare program. Millions of Canadians will benefit from it and it is a good step forward in developing a solid national pharmacare program, what we put into place. There is a child care program, a Canada child benefit program that no longer pays for millionaires and that supports even those parents who have a lower income. I made reference to $10-a-day child care and the expansion of child care spaces. There is a dental care program in which well over a million Canadians have participated.
There is a national school food program. The member for Kildonan—St. Paul is talking about children in poverty, yet the Conservatives vote against a national school food program. They know absolutely no shame whatsoever; they really do not. She is criticizing us because of the GST break we are giving Canadians during the holiday season. The Conservatives voted against it last night.
I need to remind each and every one of those Conservative members of Parliament that in the last election, they campaigned for it. It was in their election platform that they would give holiday relief in the form of a GST break for the holiday season. They said they would do it. What they voted against yesterday was their own policy. This is something their leader at the time, Erin O'Toole, the one they stabbed in the back because he was too progressive for them, supported. They ditched him, they got their shiny new leader and they reversed their policy on it.
I will remind the new leader of the Conservative Party that he supported what he voted against yesterday. They go around and say they are going to axe the tax—