Mr. Speaker, first I want to congratulate my colleague on his newborn baby. That is such a blessing.
In 2010 the Conservatives temporarily scrapped the 25% ferry import tariff, sending Canadian shipbuilding jobs to heavily subsidized foreign yards. The finance minister at the time said that the tariffs did not serve any purpose because the ships to which they applied could not be built in Canada. The tariff generated $118 million over six years, and the Liberals permanently scrapped it. That money could have been building capacity in Canadian shipyards.
Does my colleague agree that we need to bring back that tariff and create a deterrent, reinvest in Canadian shipbuilding capacity here in this country, keep jobs in this country and build ferries here?