Mr. Speaker, like many thousands of Canadians I listened intently to this speech and I would like to use a western analogy: Where's the beef?
All we heard was an outright condemnation of the existence of every system in place, everything we have worked for in Canada. I have not heard any solutions or proposals from the Reform Party. They are actually condemning the consultation process which has been put into effect.
The opposition held a number of failed electronic town halls across Canada to try to gauge the population, but to its surprise a number of things came out of that. Often the population in Canada was in total disagreement with its own policies.
Reform members tell the Government of Canada that it is not doing its job. I have seen what happened on their side over the past few months. Every time they have tried to consult the population in their fashion they failed.