Madam Speaker, the message I heard was that, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, everything is broken. Life costs more, and work does not pay; housing costs have literally doubled. Crime, chaos, drugs and disorder are common in our streets. However, what most disappointed them, especially the ones who voted NDP, is the way that party abandoned them under their radical new leader.
The NDP leader is not like past NDP members. He does not stand up for workers; he stands up for himself and his own narrow self-interest. He has abandoned working people. He has worked to tax their fuel and their food. He wants to ban their pickup trucks and hunting rifles. He supports policies to shut down their union jobs in resource sectors, and he wants to keep them from having their own private drug plans, which they have fought so hard to achieve.
They reject the radicalism and the sellout of the NDP. They want a common-sense Conservative government that would bring home the Canada we love.