Mr. Speaker, much to the chagrin of my colleague, I have to point out that the way government pays for social programs is through taxes, and taxes are only created by the private sector and by Canadians who work and create revenue for the government. Money does not grow on trees. The socialist rhetoric that ignores that fact is magical fantasyland.
The government has put regulations in place that are perhaps out of date or just do not reflect modern reality. When those regulations, or lack thereof, stifle competition in a free market system, we end up with oligopolies or monopolies. That ends up subjugating people, or preventing innovation or making people pay more. That is why we need to ensure we have competition in these sectors, and there are a lot of sectors in Canada that do not have competition right now, be it the telecom sector or banks. I could go on.
There needs to be cross-political alignment on the fact that if we are to talk about increasing productivity and economic growth so that the government can have sustainable social programs, we need more competition. This motion today deals with one sector of it, but I hope that there is cross-partisan agreement in this place that if a monopoly is used to profiting off of rent-seeking policies that make life unaffordable for Canadians and prevent innovation, its time is up.