Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise and submit my second Liberals copy Reform award.
Number two on the list is the hon. member for Hamilton-Wentworth who said: "The practice of using tax revenues to finance special interest groups with particular axes to grind has created a multimillion dollar system of bureaucratic patronage that operates with little accountability to ministers, MPs, the media, or the taxpayer".
It appears that Liberal backbenchers are finally beginning to see the light and have added the Reform blue book to their reading list.
Unlike the red book the blue book calls for the reduction and/or elimination of funding to special interest and advocacy groups. Unfortunately cabinet is not listening.
To date we have seen no action by this government to cut back interest group funding. To cabinet we say enough is enough. Listen to what the Reform Party is saying. Listen to what the Liberal backbenchers are saying. Stop funding special interest groups and start giving taxpayers a break.