Mr. Speaker, really, we have heard our fair share of contradictions from the Reform Party.
My colleague said that the free market had to be considered and that business decisions had to be made on the basis of cost effectiveness. I would remind her that, again this morning, it is being said that, with its financial difficulties, Canadian would have a hard time making it to next spring if the situation did not change. For years now, the government has been trying, through various ploys, to help Canadian hold on, while it kept sinking every year. This is the first point I want to make on what my Reform colleague said.
The second point is as follows. Could she explain—because Reform members are not short of contradictions in their speeches—how it is that last year, in the debate on the reform of financial institutions and the banks in Canada, no Reform member on the Standing Committee on Finance opposed the retention of the rule on 10% of the stocks of a financial institution being held by one shareholder?
How is it that, in the case of the banks and financial institutions, the Reform members fought with the Bloc Quebecois to retain the rule of 10% in order to prevent Canadian financial institutions from falling into the hands of Americans, among others, and that today it does not apply to air transportation? Is she picking up the failings of the Minister of Transport and supporting Canadian at all cost?