Mr. Speaker, the political culture of Canada took a step back from the prevailing dangerous imbalance when the NDP was re-elected in B.C.
The truth of the matter, to use a hockey analogy, is that the right wing, neo-Conservative, neo-Liberal corporate agenda has been enjoying a breakaway in Canada since 1993. Federal Liberals have been out-torying the Tories, provincial Liberals in B.C. and New Brunswick look and sound like Reformers, Klein and Harris out-reform the Reformers and the provincial Tories in Manitoba quietly outdo them all.
Reformers and Tories talk about unifying the right wing. The right wing is already unified under the Liberals. Liberals, Reformers and Tories, it is all the same agenda.
The B.C. NDP ran against that agenda and won. There is somebody on the blue line and in the net after all. It is the NDP. The NDP is the alternative to the Liberal-Tory-Reform coalition and we will restore political balance to this place and this country come the next election.