Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the member for Madawaska-Victoria for her intervention today on behalf of small business. She has shown great leadership in the last two years for small business in her community.
No one in this House will ever forget the member for Madawaska-Victoria's very first intervention on this floor two years ago when she said: "We will be a government that is lean but not mean". Reform Party members obviously heard her say that but they do not understand where she was coming from.
Reformers forget about some of the great wins Canadians have experienced from Atlantic Canada in terms of business enterprise.
I want to talk specifically about a very small business which received a bit of help in 1979-80 from a Liberal government. I was there. It received about a $4.2 million grant.