Mr. Speaker, my speech was prepared for a lot longer than two minutes but I will try to reduce it.
The basis of this whole topic which bothers me is that it appears the government does not realize we are out of time and that we cannot afford Cadillac services any longer. We have to take a step backward. We have to drop the frills. It is time to trade in the Cadillac for a smaller car and realize that the days of wine and roses are over.
It amazes me. We asked for a simple thing. It would be a nice gesture on the part of the government to give up $10 million a year. Maybe it could go to the hungry children that the minister of human resources keeps talking about. It would be a good gesture. From the Bloc, from the Liberals and from everywhere else but the Reformers we hear: "No way, we are not giving up the good old pension plan, not for a moment. It is the rest of the country that has problems. Let them figure out what they are going to do. We do not want to do anything".
I look around the Hill and I see those blue cars courting ministers wherever they want to go. There are green buses that will take us any place we want to go on the Hill.
I understand that if they were willing to sacrifice a little, they each could cough up $45,000 a year that would really go well in the hands of the Children's Aid Society in Ottawa or Toronto. That is the kind of attitude I would like to see.