Mr. Speaker, the speech we just heard was a complete misrepresentation of the facts.
The Reform Party has led the charge in opposition to Bill C-68. There is a Reform Party motion before the House today to repeal the legislation.
The only comment I have for the hon. member from the Conservative Party is that if he is concerned about taxpayers' dollars why is he in a party that jacked up government spending and the size of the federal government from about $88 billion a year when Mulroney took office to about $120 billion a year when he left? Why did it crank up deficits that started to exceed $40 billion a year?
Who is interested in saving taxpayers' money? It is certainly not the Conservative Party. It, I might add, is comparable to the sinking
Titanic
. It is impossible to plug the holes. The ship is going down and the only reason that anybody is still in the Conservative Party is because when a ship sinks there is always somebody left on it when it hits the bottom.