I believe when it comes to the vote he will have to be very careful how he handles himself. Perhaps he might have a cold or something. We certainly would not want the member to be in trouble with his party, since that whip is cracking pretty hard over there, as evidenced by the last sitting.
Some of the issues the member for Gander-Grand Falls pointed out are based on his personal crusade against the bill. He has taken a lot of effort and looked into it. He does believe that because it means less revenue for Canada it is wrong. He does believe it is a tax system for the rich. He does point out that the Reform Party and the Bloc Quebecois support it, as we do. Yet he never says openly, aggressively, that the Liberal government now supports it as well.
Perhaps when he has his intervention on the bill, because I am sure he wants to speak to it and address it as well, he would maybe tell us on this side of the House why it is that when they were in opposition and the Prime Minister and his group were over here this member was attacking the bill at the time, with their blessing obviously, with the finance minister's encouragement, with the leader of the party's encouragement. Why when they are on the other side of the House all of a sudden did they flip? Do they become puppets of the bureaucracy? Do they become puppets of the bureaucrats? Do they have to say yes to what those people tell them to do? When they were over here they criticized it. They are over there and now they are endorsing it.
It now takes one lone voice, one lonely voice in that huge pack of 177 members over there to remind them that when they were over here they were not for this thing, they were not for the bill. They did not want to do reciprocity with the States like this. They were against stuff like that. They were against NAFTA. They were against all these things. Now they are for all this.
I do not understand. I do not mean to be taking the member for Gander-Grand Falls to task. In a way I am giving him a compliment, but in another way-