“Mr. Speaker, I would ask the member to compare the situation we saw in Canada 12, 15, 18 years ago under the Conservative government when energy companies were building infrastructure, mining companies were building mines and we were employing thousands of Canadians, to now, which is building at speeds, of course, not seen in generations, but apparently not the case.”
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Claims 83%Positioning 17%
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Mr. Speaker, Claims · 14 wordsthe Liberals thought that building at speeds never seen before was a good thing, Positioning · 14 wordsbut what we have seen is that it is actually a very bad thing.PositioningClaims · 12 wordsThey are correct that these are speeds we have never seen before, Positioning · 6 wordsbut it is a turtle pace.PositioningClaims · 59 wordsThe best way to answer the member’s question about what it was like under the Conservatives, is that, at the time, I was building homes in Saskatchewan.1The home building business was booming.There were projects going, people were working hard, paycheques were flowing, jobs were created, and everybody was building and buying houses.The Liberal government got elected, 2Positioning · 3 wordsand guess what?PositioningClaims · 26 wordsThe market started to go down and that was the end of the boom times, and we have been in that for the last 11 years.3
