moved:
That,
(i) whereas the Leader of the New Democratic Party said he "ripped up" his supply and confidence agreement with the Liberal government,
(ii) whereas the NDP Leader said, "the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people",
(iii) whereas the NDP Leader said, "the Liberal government will always cave to corporate greed, and always step in to make sure the unions have no power", in response to the Liberal Labour Minister's referrals to the Canadian Industrial Relations Board that ordered the workers of Teamsters Canada Rail Conference and the ILWU 514 to resume their duties, violating their right to strike",
therefore, the House agrees with the NDP Leader, and the House proclaims it has lost confidence in the Prime Minister and the government.
Mr. Speaker, I rise today, in the spirit of non-partisanship, to put our differences aside and take a good idea and a good perspective, no matter where it comes from. Too often in this place we refuse to accept ideas or input from other people. I thought I would remedy that by taking the words and the message of the leader of the NDP and put them in a Conservative motion so that all of us could vote for the very wise things he said.
Allow me, in the spirit of this non-partisan spirit, to read the motion that we have here, a common-sense Conservative motion:
(i) whereas the Leader of the New Democratic Party said he “'ripped up' his supply and confidence agreement with the Liberal government,
(ii) whereas the NDP Leader said, “the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people”,
(iii) whereas the NDP Leader said, “the Liberal government will always cave to corporate greed, and always step in to make sure the unions have no power”, in response to the Liberal Labour Minister's referrals to the Canadian Industrial Relations Board that ordered the workers of Teamsters Canada Rail Conference and the ILWU 514 to resume their duties, violating their right to strike,
therefore, the House agrees with the NDP Leader, and the House proclaims it has lost confidence in the Prime Minister and the government.
We all applaud the NDP leader. I know that he is enjoying the praise we are giving him.
I am splitting my time, Mr. Speaker, with the member for Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry.
Let us go through this point by point to prove the charge of the NDP leader. He says that the Liberals are too weak. He is right about that. The economy is weak, having lost $500 billion of net investment to the United States; having shrunk the last eight quarters in a row, on a per capita basis; having seen the productivity per hour worked in Canada drop for six quarters in a row. Our economy is now smaller than it was 10 years ago. We have gone from having median incomes equal to American median incomes to the present, where the American worker makes $22,000 more.
Our economy is shrinking in per capita terms. The cost of living is out of reach. We have two million people lined up at food banks. We have double the housing costs and the worst housing price inflation in the G7. Vancouver and Toronto are the most expensive housing markets in all of North America. We recognize that, economically, the Liberals have made the country weak. Then there is politically weak.
The Prime Minister has lost the support, not only of Canadians, who overwhelmingly want to fire him, but of his own party. In fact, the Liberal leader in Ontario has said that his carbon tax is wrong. How could she not say that? It will quadruple over the next five years, bringing economic nuclear winter to our country, emptying our shelves of groceries, driving even more people into starvation. The Liberal Premier of Newfoundland has said that the Prime Minister's energy cap will kill jobs in that province. Then 20 Liberal MPs want to fire him. However, it has also gone to his own cabinet. Right in the middle of a potential trade dispute with incoming President-elect Trump, we would assume that the foreign affairs minister, of all ministers, if she were to appear in the New York Times, would be doing so to fight against the tariffs. Instead, she was in the New York Times with the following headline, “Tapped by [the Prime Minister] to Steer Foreign Affairs, She’s Now His Possible Successor.” That is the foreign affairs minister—