Mr. Speaker, I listened to the compassion in the speech of the member for Kamloops as he talked about the people living at the poverty line, the unemployed and the seniors who are scraping to get buy.
I have to ask the member for Kamloops, who is looking forward to his $1 million gold plated MPs pension, where his compassion was when he had the opportunity to say “No thanks. I have a conscience. I can't accept that gold plated pension”. Where was his compassion then, when he gets a pension five, six or seven times richer than the union members who have to work 30 years to get one-fifth of that? Where was his compassion? He is no different from the Liberals. He is no different from the Tories.
The Reform Party gave $30 million back to the Canadian people by giving up their gold plated pensions. We did it because we care about Canadians. We care about the debt and we care about taxes. Where is the compassion?