Mr. Speaker, during the last week of our sitting members of the Reform Party made a number of statements with respect to supposedly the government's policy on official bilingualism. That was a code word for French services because there is no such policy. For the record, it is the Official Languages Act.
They talked of costs of course without giving any figures to bring any precision to them. Why would they do that? To suggest obviously that it is an expensive policy, and it is, but that it is so expensive that if it did not exist there probably would not be a deficit or a debt.
That is the kind of new politics being played. Code words to frighten people, to mislead them, to make them believe something that does not exist.
Where is their plan? Where are their precise costs? Until they can bring forward clear, precise alternatives and show Canadians how we can get together, talk to each other, understand each other, they have no credibility.