Mr. Speaker, last week the Reform Party came to Manitoba to try to do something about its declining popularity in that province and elsewhere in Canada. Indeed, it now has the support of barely 10 per cent of Canadians, about a 50 per cent decline since the last general election.
According to a poll conducted by the Reform member for Edmonton Southwest, 55 per cent of his constituents feel that the Reform Party is too radical or extremist.
Don Benham, of the Winnipeg Herald wrote, and I quote:
"Reformers are just as much separatists as Bloc-heads, trapped in the same narrow view that define people by language and region".
This decline in popularity is logical since the Reform Party continues to reject and to condemn its more stable and moderate members, such as the members for Calgary Southeast and Calgary Centre.
The Reform Party is bound to fail because it insists on acting like a regional party frozen in the past and incapable of contributing to unity-