Madam Speaker, points of order usually do not happen until I have started my speech. I will do something unusual, as I said a few moments ago. I am actually going to speak to the concurrence motion that is before the House right now, unlike most of the speakers today.
We are here discussing a motion to have a further detailed study on what are called the fees related to Interac. A lot of folks watching use e-transfers to send money to their friends or kids through electronic banking. We have discovered that there are what we might call usury or monopolistic fees happening.
We have a challenge in our economy right now. We are not very productive. We have been losing our productivity over the last nine years. That is due to three main things: First, this country has too much debt. More than half of that debt has been generated by the Liberals over nine years. That has caused strain on our system. Second, we are not selling enough of what we make to the world anymore; most of those issues have been generated by the antidevelopment policies of the government, which has squashed our resource industries, both renewable and non-renewable. Third, we have an oligopolistic economy, which is the federal government—
Madam Speaker, points of order usually do not happen until I have started my speech. I will do something unusual, as I said a few moments ago. I am actually going to speak to the concurrence motion that is before the House right now, unlike most of the speakers today.
We are here discussing a motion to have a further detailed study on what are called the fees related to Interac. A lot of folks watching use e-transfers to send money to their friends or kids through electronic banking. We have discovered that there are what we might call usury or monopolistic fees happening.
We have a challenge in our economy right now. We are not very productive. We have been losing our productivity over the last nine years. That is due to three main things: First, this country has too much debt. More than half of that debt has been generated by the Liberals over nine years. That has caused strain on our system. Second, we are not selling enough of what we make to the world anymore; most of those issues have been generated by the antidevelopment policies of the government, which has squashed our resource industries, both renewable and non-renewable. Third, we have an oligopolistic economy, which is the federal government—