Mr. Speaker, I want to compliment the hon. member for Kingston and the Islands for certainly raising so much attention to this great issue. I also want to thank him for reminding the Reform members that the Canadian people voted for the Liberal Party and its policies in the red book. They did not vote in favour of Reform Party policies.
I would ask the hon. member for Kingston and the Islands, what would be the impact today if the Reform Party policies were actually in place? How would they differ from the actual policies that are going into place by the Liberal Party right here in this House of Commons? We never promised what the Reform Party is talking about, so we do not have to deliver that. What we have to deliver is what we promised.
The hon. member for Kingston and the Islands has been very explicit in what he has said. He held up the books which contained the discussion papers. But the Reform Party is talking about figures. The hon. member for Kingston and the Islands knows very well that when you have a discussion paper you do not have bottom line figures. If you had bottom line figures to go on to begin with, why would you even have a discussion paper?
I want to ask the hon. member for Kingston and the Islands what is the purpose of the discussion paper? Would he explain that. I know, but I want him to explain to these people across the way who seem to think that the Canadian public voted them into office instead of the Liberal Party of Canada.