House of Commons Debates

OFFICIAL REPORT (HANSARD)

Wednesday, February 14, 2022

ORAL QUESTIONS

Hon. Scott Brison (Kings—Hants, Lib.):  

Mr. Speaker, the manufacturing sector is getting hammered and the Conservative government has no plan.

The industry minister was on the board of the Montreal Economic Institute, the same institute that called government investments in the auto sector “ineffective subsidy programs”.

When will the minister stop pontificating about Adam Smith? When will he start developing a plan to help Canada's auto sector and the thousands of Canadians who are losing their jobs right now?

Hon. Scott Brison (Kings—Hants, Lib.):

Mr. Speaker, Canada's new opposition has some information for Canada's new government.

The fact is that those programs were in place under the previous Liberal government. The only program to make direct investments in the auto sector was the technology partnerships program, and that program was killed by that minister on December 31.

That minister does not know what is going on in his own department. That minister is drowning in his own right-wing think tank. While he is drowning in his right-wing think tank, thousands of Canadians are losing their jobs in the manufacturing sector.

When will he act? When will he develop a plan? When will he stand up for Canadian workers?