Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise today to speak to this motion.
Before I begin to refer to the body of my text, I have to comment on the waxing eloquence of my hon. colleagues from the Liberal Party regarding the red book. I would very much like to point out to my colleagues that on August 12, 1993 the Prime Minister of today challenged Kim Campbell, then Prime Minister, about pension reform.
On August 11 he challenged Kim Campbell to recall Parliament and said: "We would pass it in one day", meaning pension reform. He was feisty in his request because he added that his party had been proposing these reforms for months:
"It is 1984 all over again", Chrétien charged. "They said `here is a fresh face'. They promised a new dimension of objectivity and representation. Now it is the same speech, the same lies and the same promises".
So much for the red book.