Mr. Speaker, the Reform Party owes it to Canadians to put the true facts forward on what its plan is.
If those low income Canadians lived in one of the seven provinces receiving equalization, they would not get the same level of public services to which they are entitled now as a result of what Reform has said. If somebody in a family happened to get sick and the province in which they lived had to absorb a $4 billion cut to the Canadian health and social transfer that the Reform Party has advocated, they would be in deep difficulty.
If that family required the Canadian pension plan or help in old age it would not get it because what the Reform Party has put in front of the Canadian people is a pension plan for upper income Canadians and would deprive lower income Canadians.
It is time Reform laid the facts on the table about what it is suggesting.