Mr. Speaker, of course, there is always a desire to have people work together, but there is working together for the sake of working together, and there is working together to achieve an end to the disastrous policies that caused the suffering in the first place. If the government is sincere, and if its actions and legislation match its rhetoric, then it can expect that we will work together to pass the ideas and the policies that it lifted from our platform, admitting that it was the government's policies that caused the problem.
The member talked about standing up to Donald Trump, and this is the part that I have a big problem with, because what the government did was say “elbows up” at the beginning of the campaign, as it was going to keep the industrial carbon tax or keep locking energy projects, and the government was going to go down and deal with Donald Trump from a position of strength. Then, secretly during the campaign, it was “elbows down”, as the government quietly lowered those retaliatory tariffs down to 0%. Then, it was “elbows back up” at the end of the campaign, in the final days, but the government did not tell Canadians what it had done. It was “elbows back down” when the Prime Minister met with Donald Trump.
The elbows were up; the elbows were down; it was like the government was doing the chicken dance over there.