Mr. Speaker, I heard the Minister of Labour saying “Please, give a speech.” I will maybe go beyond my normal short interventions. Honestly, I think most members of Parliament would like to know if the government House leader can update the House on the business of next week, should her government survive the confidence vote on Monday.
We know there are mixed messages coming from the NDP. We have put forward a common-sense motion agreeing with the NDP leader's words when he said the government was “too selfish and too beholden to corporate” greed to protect the rights of workers.
We expect the NDP will support that, that they would not swallow themselves whole and demonstrate to Canadians the heights of their hypocrisy. We expect the government will fall on Monday, counting on the NDP to declare confidence in its leader by agreeing with his words.
Should that not be the case, and the NDP members turn out to be flip-floppers and hypocrites, we would like to know what the government would be calling for the rest of the week.