Madam Speaker, I will ask a brief question of the member for Dartmouth.
He began his speech by talking about a new trading agreement. He talked about NAFTA, GATT and the like. I remember before the 1988 election when the Liberals were fighting the NAFTA agreement, they had advertisements in which they erased the boundary between Canada and United States. Now he has the gall to stand up in the House and support NAFTA, saying how wonderful it is. That is a big flip-flop on the part of the Liberals.
The transportation act we are dealing with, Bill C-14 replaces the old WGTA. The minister of agriculture stated as late as November 1994 that the Crow benefit was going to remain intact, that he had no intention of abolishing it. Three months later, in the 1995 budget, the Crow benefit was gone, another big Liberal flip-flop.
The member is praising the privatization of CN. Reformers have always been on the record as favouring privatization where the private sector can do a better job than the public sector. History is proving that position is right. I would like to remind the hon. member that his party's position was the opposite. It said that privatizing CN was despicable. I believe those were the words Liberals used. Now he is praising the privatization of CN. That is the third flip-flop.
The fourth flip-flop is that he said there should be a guarantee that the CN line remain between Montreal and Halifax. This member is from Dartmouth. He should have the interests of his constituents in mind, yet he is not supporting Motion No. 38 put forward by the member for Kootenay West-Revelstoke, a motion that would have put that in the legislation.
My question is really simple. Why should we believe anything a Liberal says?