Madam Speaker, the member for Winnipeg North is always up on his feet in the chamber. He speaks the most words in Parliament but never says anything. All we ever hear is Liberal propaganda and misinformation that really does undermine the seriousness of debate on the motions before us.
During his entire speech, the member refused to recognize that over the 10 previous years of the Liberal government, the Liberals chased away $690 billion of actual investment that was going to go into natural resources and pipelines across this country. Because of their mandate, regulations, overreach and antidevelopment, all those dollars left. For the only pipeline they built, they had to go into the pockets of Canadian taxpayers to expand the western pipeline into Vancouver. We are still in the hole and are never going to see those dollars recouped, because of their mismanagement and incompetence.
The member has also been sitting quite quietly. He talks about interprovincial trade, but meanwhile, Manitoba makes the best whisky in the world, called Crown Royal. He has been completely silent as the Government of Ontario has threatened to pull Crown Royal off its shelves. If he is so adamant that Liberals stand up for interprovincial free trade, will he push back and force his government to stand in the way of the Province of Ontario's pulling Manitoba-made Crown Royal whisky off its shelves?