Mr. Speaker, I am not sure if the member is from Atlantic Canada or not but that is a bunch of codswallop. That is a diatribe of the worst kind.
Sometime when he wants to walk home with the leader of the Reform Party I can arrange it because member for Calgary Southwest does not have a chauffeur to this day. The hon. member should know that.
Without getting into the gutter with the member opposite, I will quickly go through some things. Why did the B.C. Liberal Party, along with the B.C. Reform Party and the independents capture 60 per cent of the vote in British Columbia? What did they promise? They promised to resign if they did not do the following Reform things: Go for referendum and recall, reduce taxes, balance the budget, bring in fixed election dates, reduce the number of MLAs in the legislature in Victoria, eliminate the MLA pension plan. The B.C. Liberals said that maybe they would renegotiate the Nisga'a contract. It goes on and on with an entire Reform Party package that captured 61 per cent of the vote in British Columbia.
The B.C. Liberal Party has nothing to do with the federal Liberal Party of course. When he appeared before it, this caucus over here booed the B.C. Liberal guy out of town. He was happy to do it because he said: "I have nothing to do with that bunch. They don't stand for anything I stand for". He did not say it but he stands for almost the same package of reforms that this federal party, the Reform Party of Canada, stands for.
That is why many people supported the B.C. Liberal Party or the B.C. Reform Party in the B.C. election. Together they had a vast majority of British Columbians who stood for none of this nonsense over here, but stood for all the things I just mentioned.