Mr. Speaker, first, I would like to thank my colleague for his speech. He knows how much I respect him. He is a member of the Standing Committee on Finance, and he does a lot for that committee.
Let us get back to the facts. Today, the minister announced the next steps in our plan to invest in economic growth and job creation in Canada.
I invite my colleague to carefully review the numbers that the minister announced. In the fall economic statement, we announced an additional $81 billion for infrastructure this year, over 11 years. That is $180 billion in total for infrastructure. Of that amount, we are taking $15 billion from the infrastructure bank. Why? Because we want to build more infrastructure and we want to do it more quickly. The rest of the money will be invested by this government. We spoke about social infrastructure and green infrastructure.
I have the following question for my colleague: why is he opposed to building more social infrastructure in Canada?