Madam Speaker, when people need to feed their families, sympathy is simply not enough.
I am well aware of the CCA and the history of Electro-Motive Diesel in London, Ontario. I understand that companies were given a tax break to buy locomotives, but the point is that tax break benefited EMD. It was a taxpayer-funded benefit to EMD. When the workers of EMD needed the federal government, it was nowhere to be seen.
The Prime Minister went into that plant, had a photo op and said that he would ensure their jobs would be safe. When those workers were in trouble, he was nowhere to be seen. If this CCA benefit is so good, why is GO Transit now buying locomotives from Cummins in the United States?
Precisely, what is wrong with fixing the Investment Canada Act to ensure that this travesty does not happen again? What is wrong with providing tax credits to create jobs instead of this—