Mr. Speaker, last Sunday afternoon the member for Charleswood St. James—Assiniboia, who is the chair of the government's western alienation task force, was the guest on a two-hour radio show across Canada.
In the entire two hours there was not one single call of support. And one listener even told the member to get himself a hearing aid because it was clear from his inattention to the callers that he was not listening.
The government does not even listen to the messages it gets from the Liberal Party of B.C. on issues like Nisga'a, criminal refugees and crime control. Why would anyone think for a moment that the western alienation task force is going to take the slightest bit of notice of input from the west?
After all, if the Liberals were serious, they would only have to listen to and act on the input that Reform MPs are giving them every day in the House.
The name of the western alienation task force should be changed to the Liberal alienation task force because it is the Liberals who are the ones who are alienated out west. The voters just do not like them.