Madam Speaker, my colleague talked about the by-election in Elmwood—Transcona. He talked about small business people. For seven years, the NDP led the charge to cap credit card merchant fees and forced the government to do something. The Conservatives sat silent for seven years while small business people paid some of the highest credit card fees in the world. Leila Dance, who won in Elmwood—Transcona, ran the Transcona business improvement association. The reason she won is that small business people saw right through the Conservatives, who are actually just there for big corporations.
Why were the Conservatives silent and standing up for Visa and Mastercard instead of small business owners in this country?