Mr. Speaker, I rise in the House today with pride and some dismay.
I am proud of the Minister of Finance who has proposed in this year's budget the most dramatic comprehensive changes in government since World War II.
I am proud to be part of a government that has met, and will continue to meet, the objectives necessary to wrestle the deficit and debt that are damaging the country to the ground.
My dismay has mounted over the past several weeks while I listen to the members of the third party refuse to join us on this
side of the House, however grudgingly, and working for the future prosperity of this beautiful country.
They ran on the concept of a new type of politics that does not follow the old partisan ritual and dogma. Why then are they voting no to the challenge we now face?
Why is their leader currently communing with the spiritual leader of the new right wing of the United States, being tutored in barbaric doctrines which slash seniors pensions and allow orphans to be institutionalized? Why is the leader of the third party not participating in this country's rebirth instead of observing the machinations of an evil, bitter monster to the south?