Mr. Speaker, I do take exception to the hon. member's remarks. The point is that this government has yet to prove it can move beyond taking reports and put them into action. That was the whole point of my speech.
We have had the GST study. My goodness, my colleagues on the finance committee were meeting for months, sometimes three times a day. They produced a big report months ago and we have not seen anything. That was the end of it. I mentioned that the Minister of Human Resources Development produced a report which said: "We have a problem in this country but do not ask me for solutions. What do you think?" The Minister of Finance tabled two reports in two consecutive days which basically said the same thing: "We have a problem in this country but I am not offering any solutions".
Surely the government's job is to offer solutions. The solution we are offering is less taxation and less government. Stop picking winners and giving them all kinds of cash and expecting small business and business in general to try and compete under the heavy load of high taxes, a high dollar and high interest rates. They are trying to compete in the international marketplace to create jobs and some employment here, to create some wealth in this country yet we continue to tax them as if they were sponges with endless amounts of cash.
That whole idea is past. The day has come when there is no more money for small business to pay. Therefore before small business goes bankrupt we now find that this government is bankrupt of ideas. For the past number of months we have done nothing except some house cleaning from the previous government: the restructuring of this department, the restructuring of that department and the amalgamation of some other departments. These things were produced by the previous Prime Minister. This government has been in power for more than a year now and we are still doing house cleaning from the previous government. When are we going to get some serious action and decisions?