Mr. Speaker, first, if I may, the member seemed to be a little upset with the fact that I might have some knowledge in regard to the issue of health care. Having worked with health care workers for many years in the province of Manitoba, having been the health care critic and having visited drug sites, I do have a bit of a sense of the issue that is being raised.
The member opposite brought up an issue that was not going to be raised, and it was a specific question. At times, yes, it is better not to provide a concise answer to a question until one actually knows what one is talking about. I suspect that even the member opposite would have to concede that it is, in fact, the case.
On the issue the member raised, I have a very good sense of what needs to be said here, which is that the Conservative Party continues to go around talking about how Canada is broken. That is just not the case. If the member was to check with his constituents, he would find that Canada is the best place in the world to call home.
When the member talks about the deficit, seriously, the Harper government, which his leader was a part of, inherited a multi-billion dollar surplus back when they took over the reins of power. By the time that ended, they actually had nothing but deficits throughout that period of time, and they had to sell GM shares in order to falsify and make it look as if they had balanced the budget.
Today, we have the strongest and healthiest credit rating possible, which is a AAA rating. As a government, we have a Prime Minister who has economic experience and has dealt with being the Governor of the Bank of Canada and the Governor of the Bank of England. He has impeccable credentials in dealing with the economy, and we have decided to build a stronger, healthier economy by investing in Canadians as opposed to ignoring Canadians and doing nothing but rage mongering and trying to give a false impression that Canada is all doom and gloom.
We have good reason to be optimistic, because we have a Prime Minister, a cabinet and a Liberal caucus that truly understand the value Canada has to offer the world. That is one of the reasons we have ministers and a Prime Minister who are going around attracting billions of dollars in foreign investment to our country. It is the reason we are increasing trade opportunities around the world while at the same time working on making sure that we get a good trade agreement with the United States of America. We can contrast that to the Conservative Party, which talks about misery and spreads misinformation constantly, whether it is on the floor of the House of Commons or through social media.
I do not need to take a lesson from the member opposite on what the Conservative Party might be able to do in some sort of dreamland. I know full well that when we talk about the policies they espouse, we will find that, at the end of day, they do not make any sense, and that demonstrates that they do not care about the interests of Canadians.
There have been a number of opposition days, and if we look at those we will find that what the Conservatives constantly want to talk about is rage and getting Canadians upset. A good example of that was yesterday, when they took the issue of asylum seekers and meshed it in with the issue of health care, which is an issue that Canadians are truly concerned about. They tied them together in order to portray an impression that immigration is bad for Canada, when in fact immigrants have built Canada to what it is today. In one sense, we are all immigrants.
I would just give that as a piece of advice to the member opposite.