Mr. Speaker, the Canada pension plan, which the Reform Party would seek to destroy, is depended on by more women than men. It is an essential part of their retirement. The Reform Party would take it away.
Health care, which the Reform Party will cut, is important to Canadian women. Why is the Reform Party threatening to take it away? Equalization payments in Atlantic Canada, Manitoba and Saskatchewan are important for the public services that they supply to women.
The Reform Party has the nerve to stand up here and say that they would defend the basic public services on which women depend. The facts speak for themselves. This party is a 14th century party raising headlines in the 8th century. That is what we are dealing with.