Mr. Speaker, my colleague, the hon. member for Saint-Léonard-Anjou, has referred to credibility. At the present time we have a flagrant example, which casts doubt on the credibility of our institutions. When political parties are going after votes, making promises, and referring to a program, but then do a complete about face as soon as they are elected, it seems to me that this is unacceptable.
This is also why MPs lack credibility in the eyes of the public at this time. The latest polls indicate that MPs have about 15 per cent of public credibility. In my opinion, this is the main reason for the lack of trust in MPs: they do exactly what the Liberals did during the last campaign. They do exactly what the Liberals did during the implementation of the GST, which was proposed and implemented by their Conservative predecessors.
Then they did everything in their power, they set up strategies, they went at it hammer and tongs, scaring the public. For example, the hon. member for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell said on December 15, 1990 that the GST represented fear and suffering. People will say anything to attract votes. Today, we are in the process of accepting what is more or less the original Conservative plan.
What I mean by that is that the public has had it with MPs who say one thing one day and a do completely different thing the next. So this is my question for my colleague. Does he believe that what the Liberals are doing at this time, and what they did during the last campaign, will add to or take away from MPs' credibility?