Social Security System  Mr. Speaker, I would like to compliment the hon. member on his speech. There are many things in his speech that I certainly subscribe to and many Reformers do as well. There are a lot of organizations in this country receiving grants well in excess of what they should

Social Security System   should not introduce reforms at the expense of the neediest in this country, and I would ask the hon. member to give us his views on the subject.

Social Security System  Mr. Speaker, I do not think we are beginning the reform on the backs of the disadvantaged. The direction of my speech was to ask that those who are able to take care of themselves should look after themselves and raise their own money. I think that applies right across the board

Social Security System   is simplistic in the House, it is not the people in the Reform Party who believe people have to be given a voice. It is people who believe they have all the answers. I encourage the hon. member to take a look around the country today and acknowledge we have to listen much more carefully

Social Security System   perspectives. We come from different solitudes. It is one thing if one is the leader of the Reform Party and one's riding of Calgary Southwest has an average family income of $49,000 or the newly independent gentleman from Markham-Whitchurch-Stouffville who comes from a riding that has

Social Security System  . We cannot be robots because the constituents are pressing different buttons. They are pressing different buttons every day. They are telling us to go this way and they are telling us to go that way. Yet I hear the Reform Party say: "No, our constituents are of one mind

Social Security System   they can do. As a result the Canadian public is being deprived of service under the guise of so-called universality. In this current situation people who need essential health care services are not getting them because of the rationing and the withdrawal of services. We in the Reform

Social Security System   questions about the future of our health system under a regime which might include Reform Party proposals. I would ask the member to tell this House if he really believes that weakening in any way the Canada Health Act, in any way dismantling the thrust and the strength

Social Security System  Very well, Mr. Speaker. Then I will simply follow your instructions and comment on this debate and on the position taken by our party and by the government. Obviously, we would like our party and the Reform Party to reach a consensus on the big issue of the allocation of public

Social Security System  Mr. Speaker, I look forward to an opportunity to debate this question at great length with the member for Beaver River and other members of her party in the House. The problem is twofold. Frankly I hear very simplistic things coming out of the Reform Party. I hear this constant

Points Of Order  Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, I do not want to interrupt my hon. friend from the Reform Party. I just wanted to respond to my Bloc critic who said that it was his understanding that he was to get the documents at noon. I believe my officials delivered them at one o'clock. I

Points Of Order  I think the hon. member is absolutely correct. I had assumed because of the positioning of the member that he was a member of the Reform Party. The issues that I raised still stand, but I stand corrected.

National Defence  A supplementary question, Mr. Speaker. The Reform Party applauds the signs of fiscal responsibility on the part of the government. Few would disagree that the review is likely to require the closing of several bases. How can the minister decide which bases to close before

Social Programs   powerful medium of the upcoming renegotiation of various transfer programs? Will he concede that his views will prevail in the social program reform process?

Pre-Budget Consultations   more taxes and a little less spending while we watch his vision cause this country to slide down into the realm of third world economies? In the last election the Reform party laid out a clear and simple plan to balance the budget in three years. Now that we have been told