Madam Speaker, I just heard a friend of mine across the way say that they are not Canadians. The truth comes out. All of a sudden our humanity is out the window, because if someone is not Canadian, then we do not owe them anything. We have no international obligations and we do not protect their human rights. The truth comes out. The heckle from the other side was that they are not Canadian; it is us versus them.
Guess what? When a lot of our parents came here, they were not Canadians either at the time. They were not Canadians, but they were embraced and given refuge and opportunities to succeed, and they built this country. So will these people.
If members across the way are trying to discriminate between people who came from war-torn Europe versus people who may be coming from war-torn Africa, they should say it out loud and on the record. Do not just heckle me when the microphone is not on.
That is what this debate is about, and I will go back to my point. It saddens me, because that is not the debate we should be having in this country. We should be looking at this moment in time and how we are going to build Canada, and it will require every single one of us.
In a healthy democracy, we are going to disagree with each other, absolutely, but we should disagree with each other in a thoughtful way, in a way that is going to make us stronger, more resilient and more powerful. That is what we owe to this country, not tearing each other down and not creating an us-versus-them narrative. That is exactly what the motion is trying to do.
Again, we can look at the language that is being used. The debate is not that somehow Canadians are going to be getting less health care because $1 billion is being spent on this program. How can that be debated? One billion dollars—