Madam Speaker, we have been listening to a speech from a Reform member whose party has been basically shut out in Atlantic Canada because of its harsh slash and burn policies toward regional development. It wants to privatize everything that walks, moves and crawls, yet the hon. member suddenly rises and pretends he has the interests of the people of Halifax at heart.
I do not need to take lessons from him or from anyone else in the Reform Party with respect to looking after the interests of Atlantic Canada. In the last Parliament 48 sets of questions were asked of the Tory ministers of transportation with respect to the competitiveness of the port of Halifax. Those questions came from the member of Parliament for Dartmouth. There were probably just as many questions asked by the member of Parliament for Halifax in the last Parliament.
In this Parliament it was the member of Parliament for Dartmouth who visited the Minister of Finance on a number of occasions to seek changes to the Customs Act and the Income Tax Act which would allow a port such as the port of Halifax to become a de facto duty free, value added trade centre.