Mr. Speaker, as I was listening to the member I could not help thinking the Liberal side of the House must have a special fund set aside for psychiatric help. I have never heard so much talk about how they proudly built the programs and now they are equally proud to dismantle them. I just do not know how they can say that.
I would like the member to address several dilemmas that must go through the Liberal mind. I would not want to call them broken promises. How does he reconcile that the budget broke the workforce adjustment directive when a couple of months before they promised they would not break it?
How can he justify that when the government came into power it said that it would not sign the GATT without a strengthened article 11(2)(c) and then it signed it anyway? The government was not going to sign the NAFTA but it signed it immediately coming into power. The government promised to eliminate the GST but that has not been possible. The government said that it would reform the pension plan of MPs but it just does not have the guts to do it.
Furthermore, things are coming down the road that Canadians know about. The Prime Minister muses that perhaps a 1 per cent or 2 per cent of GDP drop in health care funding is inevitable. That will amount to $10 billion or $15 billion. That is inevitable.
The member proudly said that there were no changes in UI. Yet the minister in charge of that program travelled the country for six months to try to find ways to change it. The member is proud to say that it has not changed. It has to change.
The last question I would like to ask the hon. member is: With respect to the pension plan of MPs, will he opt out or not?