Nervous? Mr. Speaker, I will pay the hon. member $15,000 or $20,000 if he would only run against me. I will hold fundraisers for him if he would only come down and run against me. Run anywhere in Atlantic Canada. I will pay the member $25,000. We will have a fundraiser just for the Reform Party so it can find a candidate.
If the hon. member wishes to take me up on the offer he has to put something on the table also such as a little bit of integrity, a little bit of honesty, a little bit of compassion, as opposed to being this anti-institution, anti-government, anti-individual, anti-Quebec, anti-democracy, anti-everything.
Their ranks are starting to grow, Mr. Speaker. They are like earwigs, they multiply when a little issue comes to the forefront.
One of their caucus members said about their own leader and their own party: "I have had enough of labouring under the image of a party that is downright scary". That does not come from us. That comes from the members opposite which adds to the thesis. This group of Canadians in the Reform Party are not concerned about Newfoundland. They are not concerned about the economic interests in that part of the country. They are not concerned about the economic interests of the people of Quebec or indeed elsewhere. They are playing an old game of cheap, sleazy politics.
This was the politics that the leader of the Reform Party said he was not going to be involved in. He is doing it. That is exactly what he is doing. I find, and I am sure Canadians will find, this kind of conduct very disgusting and will vote accordingly.
I do not need notes to debate the hon. member. I would debate the hon. member anywhere on any subject that he chooses to debate. The problem is that it is very difficult to debate with anyone who uses false and erroneous information and who tries to use poor people and poor regions of the country to his own political advantage.
I say to the people of Newfoundland and Labrador that the Reform Party has absolutely nothing to offer them in this election, absolutely nothing. The hon. member opposite asks me: "What do you have to offer?". We have lots to offer the people of Newfoundland and Labrador. The work that the hon. member who was the member for Labrador for 24 years will continue when we elect a Liberal member of Parliament from that constituency.
In closing, let me challenge the Reform Party. Instead of being anti-poor regions of this country, instead of being anti-Quebec, instead of being anti-those who are less fortunate than you are, stand in your place and put constructive ideas before the House of Commons. Support measures which will help people who are less fortunate than you are as opposed to playing cheap political games.