Mr. Speaker, I am a businessman by profession. I was in business for six or seven years. There was a saying in Saskatchewan under the old Reform style government of Grant Devine. How do you start a small business in Saskatchewan under the Reform style government of Grant Devine? Every business person in the province was saying at that time you start a big business and you wait a year under the Reform style policies. That was the result of the Reform style government of Grant Devine.
These people are really concerned about being associated with Mr. Devine, but they were and they are. I do not begrudge them the fact that they want to duck that relationship that has been proven through membership cards in Saskatchewan that many of the supporters of the Reform Party in Saskatchewan held. They do not want to be associated with that. That is fair game. They can duck that as they see fit. But the record shows very clearly that the Reform style government of Grant Devine in Saskatchewan in the 1980s was clearly a bad government. I would hope that the Reform Party members have learned a lesson from that and apologize to this country for the disgraceful performance of their government in the 1980s.