Mr. Speaker, if I have learned anything in the last 100 days from the party opposite, Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, it is that we certainly have to ignore much to get on with something. That is something we have learned over the last 100 days from that party.
That member has the nerve to accuse this government and this party of saying one thing and getting on with something else. That member over there is the chameleon of chameleons. He can certainly talk about Progressive Conservative ideas. He sat in this House and got elected as a Conservative, did he not? Then in chameleon-like fashion, for some cause he moved from this side of the House to sit on that side in the back row. Then he went on to fight an election not for Canada and not to represent his province in this great country of ours, no. He got elected in this country to promote what? To separate his province from the rest of Canada. That is what he wants to do. That is the agenda of the member opposite. He has nothing to add to this budget.
To quote the member opposite, he says it is a budget that disappoints everyone, that satisfies no one. Obviously the member does not keep in touch with constituencies outside his own.
There was a multitude of comment made following the budget like: "Canadians still show a high support for the federal Liberals even after a budget that tightened restrictions on unemployment insurance and closed military bases across the country". Before February 28 the following comment was made: "Nearly six in ten adult Canadians surveyed by the pollster Angus Reid last Tuesday through Thursday said they preferred the Liberals, a 17 point increase over the party's share of the vote in the October election". Imagine that.
This is the period for questions or comments and those are my comments. Even in Atlantic Canada where the budget cut the deepest, as the member pointed out, Liberals have the support of 65 per cent of decided respondents. That is quite amazing. We just do not know where the member is coming from.