Mr. Speaker, I found what we just heard to be a most enlightening discourse. It was absolutely amazing. What this man has been able to put together as a Liberal backbencher absolutely astounds me. He is asking the ministers of finance to be transparent and accountable. He is asking the provinces to be accountable. He is asking for things to happen. He is asking the finance minister to explain to Canadians how the equalization program actually develops the economy of Canada.
This gentleman represents a riding on behalf of the Liberal Party. Here he is talking as a Liberal but as if he had read and understood very clearly and completely the position of the Reform Party presented by the Leader of the Opposition a couple of days ago. I congratulate him for listening so well. I congratulate him for his ability to understand and to expound so clearly and so carefully what it is he heard here last week. It is tremendous.
He did qualify it a little and said “Well I do not really agree with that, I do take a different view of Canada than the Leader of the Opposition does”. But what he said before that was a total contradiction. I think it is absolutely fantastic. I commend the gentleman for saying that we need to examine our values, that we need to consider accountability and that we need to make this formula transparent.
I suggest that he tell this House exactly how he would make this formula simpler and a little more transparent, and how he would introduce accountability into it.