Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague and friend for his speech. I serve with him on the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities.
I also want to thank him for his introductory course on how we can build a Canadian economy that revolves around small businesses. I like how he said that his selection criteria were based on permanent or long-term measures, rather than on measures that are not good and that last only for two months, like the GST holiday. Why, then, did my opposition colleague vote against permanent measures like the Canada child benefit, the school food program and housing measures?
These are long-term decisions. Why did my colleague vote against them?