Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate my hon. colleague for his excellent analysis and especially for having explained to the Reformers, who simply do not understand anything, that there is a difference between an asset and an expense.
When you have a productive asset, which will remain productive in the long term if you keep investing in it, in an area in development at the international level, like a railway system, anyone can understand that one day it will make the country richer. In other words it is possible to increase the wealth of a country and control spending by developing assets.
If we listened to the members of the Reform Party, with whom I work every day in the finance committee, we would empty nine tenths of Canada to fill the remaining tenth, because nothing is viable in their opinion. If nothing is viable, I wonder why they remain a federalist party. The country has to be dismantled. If they do not believe in the country as it is, why do they stay in politics? Are they here to improve the situation or to be accomplices to a systematic demolition? When it is not the railway system which is under attack, it is social programs. They started with unemployment insurance, then post-secondary education and health. If that is politics for them, hats off!