Madam Speaker, there is a narrative we have been hearing from the Liberals today, which is that the budget they have put forward should just be blindly accepted by all opposition parties, and that if we do not go along with this reckless budget, an election is on our hands.
Interestingly, with a member as loquacious as my colleague from Winnipeg North, we can always find something he has said in the chamber. Back when there was a Conservative minority government, he sang a very different tune. All of his messages, and I found about a dozen of them, were about how the government needs to listen to opposition parties.
My question to my colleague from the neighbouring riding of Chatham-Kent—Leamington is, when did it become the obligation of opposition parties to find support for government legislation?