Mr. Speaker, it is rare that the Green Party gets to put a question to the leader of the official opposition, so I will take this opportunity.
I will start by saying there was nothing in his statement with which I could disagree, because it vaulted us into a frenzy of patriotism. I love this country. There is no place in the world I would rather live than in Canada, but the hon. leader of the official opposition also maybe gave us a chance to get to know him a bit better. What would he do instead?
He mentioned he had met a waitress. He has known me for a long time. I was a waitress for more than a decade and could not afford to go to university, but only in Canada was it possible for me to go to law school as a mature student. Since I did not join a political party until I was over 50, what jobs has he held in real life outside politics that make him think he could be prime minister?