Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my absolute disbelief of the actions of the leader of the Reform Party during the 1995 referendum.
It has been revealed that while the federal government along with ordinary Canadians from across our country were fighting tooth and nail to keep our country together, the Reform leader was scheming to take advantage of a separatist win.
United States Ambassador James Blanchard recently revealed that the Reform leader approached him and other foreign governments with a plan to dismantle Canada after supposedly a separatist victory. This is inexcusable.
It was the Reform Party that was so indignant when it learned of the former Bloc Quebecois member's letter campaign to solicit Canadian armed forces to join a new Quebec. What a hypocrisy. In front of the cameras it denounces a separatist cause but behind the scenes it works to undermine the federal government's effort to keep the country together.
The Reform leader's thirst for power seems to have no boundaries, not even the boundaries called Canada. Shame on him.