Mr. Speaker, I think most of that tirade scarcely merits an answer. I am going to assume that the member did not really mean to say that the president of Royal Oak Mines actually caused the death of those miners. We will give him the benefit of the doubt.
I will say to my hon. friend that rather obviously he has not paid very close attention to what happened in the last election campaign. Not only did the Reform Party dramatically increase its support, but I would also point out that the whole issue of taxation and cutting taxes resonated from Canadians coast to coast.
In fact the Reform Party plan would put a billion dollars back into the pockets of Atlantic Canadians through tax relief. We argue that is a new solution that has been untried. I would also argue that if subsidies and grants work so extraordinarily well, then why is it that we have staggeringly high unemployment levels in Atlantic Canada? We have been doing this since the 1970s when we started to change UI benefits to make them regionally sensitive. What has happened since then? We have seen unemployment ratchet up and up and up and up.
When is the hon. member and his party going to learn from the mistakes of the past? How many people have to be unemployed and living in poverty before the hon. member and his party get it? Do they not understand that the solutions of the 1970s are not going to fix the problems of the 1990s? When is he going to get it?