Madam Speaker, thank you and I thank my colleagues. I hope that members from all parties will take the opportunity to look at these heartfelt writings of Canadians who will be affected both now and in the future by what we are debating today. Just look at what the people we represent really think about what is happening.
In conclusion, and I know we all love that word when politicians are speaking. If we truly believed, not just we in the Reform Party but many members of this House, that these proposals we are debating today were fair, were economically sound, that they made the best use of Canadians' valuable earnings, that they delivered real security to Canadians for retirement and were in the long term best interests of Canadians, we would be happy to support them. We would be happy and relieved that something right was being done. However after careful study, after listening to expert witnesses on this, we cannot honestly conclude this to be the case and because of that we will not support this bill.
We urge the government to adopt constructive alternatives which not only Reform but many other countries have proposed. On behalf of our children we appeal to the government to abandon this flawed and unfair legislation. There is a better way that would provide more personal choice and better security on retirement. Canadians deserve no less.