Discussion · Government Orders
Yves-François Blanchet Bloc Québécois
“I worry the Prime Minister has given up on a quick trade deal with the United States. I am afraid he will let struggling businesses fail instead. He needs to help our most creative and promising businesses survive.”
“Mr. Speaker, my esteemed colleague and friend will be disappointed: I have no explanation. However, I have one concern. My concern is that, from a financial perspective, in the very broad international sense of the term, the Prime Minister’s approach is to abandon the idea of a short-term agreement with the United States because he does not believe it is possible. I am afraid he thinks that, in any case, it will be for the long term, and that the best businesses survive and the businesses that cannot survive do not. If that were the case, it would be tragic. I want to think it is not, but it is up to him to reassure us with measures to help businesses survive, because the ones being threatened are often the most innovative, the most creative and the most promising for the future.”
Mr. Speaker, my esteemed colleague and friend will be disappointed: I have no explanation. However, I have one concern. My concern is that, from a financial perspective, in the very broad international sense of the term, the Prime Minister’s approach is to abandon the idea of a short-term agreement with the United States because he does not believe it is possible. I am afraid he thinks that, in any case, it will be for the long term, and that the best businesses survive and the businesses that cannot survive do not. If that were the case, it would be tragic. I want to think it is not, but it is up to him to reassure us with measures to help businesses survive, because the ones being threatened are often the most innovative, the most creative and the most promising for the future.