Mr. Speaker, the hon. member puts forward an interesting proposition. I think my friend behind me and to my left answered quite appropriately one day when he said: "If you vote against the government on a finance bill, it is a vote of no confidence in the government".
The assumption is made under our rules, that if one has no confidence in the government then that person must have confidence in one of the opposition parties. Unfortunately with the positions taken by the opposition parties, I have less confidence in them than I have in the present Government of Canada.