Mr. Speaker, when there is bad legislation a party should oppose it. Unfortunately in this case we did not see all the flaws in the bill.
There is a direct relationship with what is happening today. The government approached the opposition parties and said “It is a minor technical amendment. Other people want it. The seniors want it. The Americans want it. Everybody wants it. Trust us”. We made the mistake of trusting the Liberal government. However, I am not going to make it again.
That is why today the Reform Party stands opposed to this bill. No, we are not going to go along with kid gloves with the Liberal government with respect to a tax increase on the backs of seniors, unlike the Tories who just this morning were fawning over what a great bill this was, over how it had so many arrangements with other governments and how it ended tax duplication so that the Liberals could raise taxes. Liberal, Tory, same old story.
We are opposed to it. They were a little confused about it this morning, we are not.