Mr. Speaker, I have been here for a good part of the debate today and I am dismayed to learn that Reform Party members in making their remarks are not really addressing their budget document.
Indeed I was here for the opening two speeches this morning from the Reform Party and they like the last one constituted really nothing but denunciations of the Liberal Party position which they are waiting to hear in the budget next week.
However they managed to use their document as some kind of launching pad for attacks on a non-existent government budget at this point. They are still attacking last year's budget and saying that government measures are inadequate when they have not yet learned what they are.
It surprised me that I could not get copies of the Reform Party budget for the longest time. I have finally obtained one. We were told in all the news reports this morning that their budget was going to be announced in the House. I am surprised that we have not heard more about the Reform budget.
I have some questions that I would like the hon. member to answer. I know he has very limited time, having wasted most of his presentation on attacking the government instead of dealing with the positive aspects, if there are any, in the Reform budget.
What is in his own party document that will be so popular with Canadians? Or, is it so unpopular that they do not want to talk about it in the House today? They want to use the opportunity to try to blame the government for all the ills instead of looking at the document they have produced, coming clean with Canadians and telling them what bad policies they have proposed in their budget document.
Why have they not discussed it? They keep referring to it but they never give specifics. Would the hon. member give us specifics and tell us what cutbacks in social programs his party proposed in their budget document so all Canadians can hear what the Reform Party has in mind?