Madam Speaker, my reply will be extremely simple. Why are they not changing the system? Because, for the most part, and here I must admit that the Reform Party may be an exception, Canadian political parties have traditionally been financed by big business.
Six of the 10 largest corporations which financed parties in power-the Liberal Party now and the Conservative Party in the past-were banks. And we should be surprised that banks have a
lot of influence on governments, interest rates, etc.? This obviously affects people earning low wages and farmers who need to borrow large amounts and it will affect students more and more because in the future they will have to borrow at least twice the amount that they currently need to pursue graduate studies.