Mr. Speaker, the member will know that I have a question.
I was interested in the response to my question about universality from the colleague who just preceded him. She said, and I think I wrote it down correctly: "We have to target to those in need", which of course has been the position of the Reform Party all the way through.
One thing has been really instructive. It perhaps sounds like I am trying to redo the election of a year ago, but it seems that this position that we have to target to those in need has been coming forward from the Liberal members seems to be unique to the members of the Liberal Party who have been elected to this House. During the course of the election I did not hear that.
When I said we have to target to those in need, what I heard from our political adversaries, some of whom happen to belong to that party, was: "Oh, you are out to destroy the social programs. Oh my goodness, what is going to happen now? We believe in the sanctification of the concept of universality".
I would like to ask this member exactly the same question. Perhaps I could ask him if he too would like to reflect back approximately a year ago, 364 days I believe, the anniversary of the election being tomorrow. I wonder if during the course of the election we could find anywhere in any of his speeches or his public pronouncements where he got up on a soap box and said: "I, a Liberal candidate in this election, say we have to target our social programs to those in need" or if he was like some of the other people who I was in contest with who were saying: "No, no, we can't do that. It must be universality". Has this member changed his position from the election?