Mr. Speaker, the member may not have been in the House last night. He must have missed the fact that the Reform Party voted in favour of the lower rates for the local residents. He obviously missed that.
With respect to the delivery of services, Kootenay National Park is in my constituency within the geography of my constituency office. The park did the initial trial for delivery of services by painting road signs of all things. The park created an efficiency after due process by giving an individual who was only half employed a commercial contract. On the basis of that commercial contract, the individual who had become an ex-park employee was able to start his own commercial sign business. With that base he could go ahead to develop his own private business in the Invermere area outside of Radium, the Kootenay National Park boundary.
Now delivery of the sign painting service to Kootenay National Park is at a significantly lower cost, a new commercial enterprise is now paying taxes and there is somebody who is very happy to deliver the commercial services as well as the services he is delivering to the park. It is a win-win-win. It is this kind of creativeness and inventiveness we would bring to deliver services to the Canadian public and to protect parks for future generations. It is not under the rubric or the umbrella of this overlaying of bureaucracy that the NDP seems to feel is the only way to protect the ecology of the parks. There are new ways. Maybe this member should start to learn that the NDP ideas of the 1950s do not fit anymore.