Mr. Speaker, I did not even mention native people. I am not sure where that came from. I was saying that the member across the way like other Liberal members is not rising in the House of Commons and calling on the Minister of Finance to put more money into health care. The record speaks for itself.
The Liberal Party is implementing policies of the Leader of the Opposition and the Reform Party which call for massive cutbacks and a reduction of the role of government. That is exactly what it is doing. They are setting the agenda and that party across the way has implemented that agenda and knows it. That is why its members are so sensitive.
It is not just health care and the farm crisis. Let us look at what happened in terms of the cutbacks to education. The government is not investing in education like it should be. That is why we are falling behind in public support of education almost every state in United States. That is what is happening in Canada. If we had more federal moneys going to the provinces for education we would have better training for our people. We would have a more competitive and productive economy. That is not happening because of the cutbacks and the priorities of the government across the way.
The important point about the finance committee report is that it is supposed to be a framework and a vision for the next five years. What will the government do? It will continue the same right wing reactionary policies of the Reform Party in terms of handing out more and more money to wealthy people. In fact, the member for Calgary Southwest said at one time in the House that Conrad Black deserved a tax cut. The Reform Party is not implementing it but it is the Liberal Party across the way.
This is why we need a public debate in the country about our real priorities. The priorities should be to invest in people, to create more equality in people, to invest in the health care system, to come to the assistance of prairie farmers and to invest in the education system. Those should be our priorities and they are not the priorities today.
We hear all this stuff about tax cuts. I remember the Liberals in opposition, Mr. Speaker, and so do you. The member from the Northwest Territories was there. I remember when Brian Mulroney brought in the GST. I remember the Liberal Party saying in the House that if Canadians elected the Liberal Party, and it is in the red book, it would abolish the GST. Does everyone remember that?
The only member who had some honour in that regard was the former Deputy Prime Minister who resigned her seat and went to her people in a byelection. The Liberals made that promise on the GST. They promised to get rid of NAFTA, the free trade agreement. They promised many other things that were in the red book, and they broke those promises.
With that, Mr. Speaker, I hope you agree with me that what we are seeing is a right wing agenda by the Minister of Finance implementing the policies of the Reform Party of Canada.