Mr. Speaker, last night Liberal members from Newfoundland and Atlantic Canada showed their true colours. They defeated a motion that condemns the injustice of the Churchill Falls contract, toeing the Liberal Party line instead of representing the interests of their own constituents.
This contract sucks over $800 million every year from Labrador's economy, relegating the province to a have not second class status within Canada. The Liberal government looks on in silence while Labrador suffers without a fishery, without jobs and without basic services like roads which other Canadians take for granted.
This fossilized government is incapable of addressing the inequalities within Confederation. It is time for the people of Newfoundland and Labrador to stop trying to change the system from within. It is time for them to reform the system from the outside by embracing real political change. It is time for Newfoundland and Labrador to vote Reform.