Mr. Speaker, I am pleased with the question put forward by the hon. member. Notice that the question is consistent with the third party policy of double talk. I have been here for the last two years and I have listened to the hon. member and his colleagues from the third party in this House talk about the fact that businesses in Atlantic Canada were receiving grants here, there and everywhere.
I am talking today about the federal government taking its responsibility toward the small and medium size businesses throughout this country. We are making sure that as responsible politicians, as a responsible government, we can provide the right environment and opportunities from coast to coast to coast for small businesses to create jobs, to look forward to competition and to make sure they can get ahead and increase exports. The member is saying that we do not know what we are doing.
On the one hand Reform Party members are saying to cut grants, cut everything, to even cut health care. Now they rise in this House to say it is not proper for us to make sure there is security for small businesses to have access to capital and on the same wavelength to have access to exporting their technology.
For nine years I have heard political questions in the New Brunswick legislature and in the House of Commons, but I have never heard double talk to this measure from an hon. member.