Madam Speaker, I would like to follow up on my Liberal colleague's comment about negative comments and the negative campaign.
I am quite concerned. I think there was a time when some Canadians were buying into that type of rhetoric, that kind of down talk. I do not think they are buying into it any more.
They have seen that a Liberal government has taken the country from a $42 billion deficit which was left by the Conservative Party to a deficit almost zero. In 1993 when I was elected, that was a very big concern.
My hon. colleague in the Reform Party did not say anything about the throne speech, about the fact that we have stabilized health care funding or about the fact that we have given $850 million in a child tax benefit to poor families.
He touched a bit on partnerships and private sector funding, but he did not talk about all the good that has been done through internships and because of the fact that we have created internship programs for students.
I would ask my hon. colleague if the Reform Party is opposed to stable health care funding, to internship programs and to helping the poor in Canada?