Mr. Speaker, every so often the Reform Party tries to put a new face on its tired old policies in the hopes that somehow it will be able to attract new members.
With its membership growth stagnated, its latest attempt is called united alternative but the big problem is that it looks exactly like the Reform Party. It will have the same leader, the same so-called principles and the same policy as the Reform Party. Some alternative. Canadians considered the Reform alternative in the last election and they turned thumbs down.
I cannot say it any better than an Ontario delegate to the convention who was quoted as saying that he wondered why anybody from another party would attend a Reform organized assembly knowing in advance the party's principles were untouchable and its leader would desperately try to remain leader.
The vast majority of Canadians know that no matter what kind of sheep's clothing the party wraps itself in, Reform's wolves are not what Canada needs.