Mr. Speaker, during the debate today the aspersions that have been thrown in this direction have been rather interesting.
I was elected fortunately in 1993 with 49% of the plurality. In 1997 I was elected with 62%. The difference of the 13% was the way the Liberals rammed Bill C-68 down the throats of all Canadians. I speak for the people of Kootenay—Columbia, and no member on that side of the House should misunderstand who I am standing up and speaking for.
This member has obviously not read the bill. He does not understand the bill. He talks about misinformation. His summation of the so-called facts of how he understands the facts clearly demonstrates that he does not understand. He just does not get it.
The bill is about Liberal social engineering. The bill is about an understanding that the Liberals have only from their own specific urban perspective. The bill is not going to make the streets of Toronto or the streets of Cranbrook any safer. The bill is doing everything to drive a wedge between honest, decent, law abiding citizens and the police forces and the government.
Let me ask the member a very simple question. How can we believe anything that the Liberal pack say when at the outset they gave us the bogus figure of $85 million or $87 million or $78 million, whatever that number was—