Mr. Speaker, I am absolutely delighted to have a chance to participate in today's debate and to tell about a couple of things that happened to me in the last 24 hours.
Yesterday I encountered many of my Liberal friends in the hallways and around Parliament Hill and they all said the same thing: “Wasn't that a wonderful budget?” I said “Not the one I heard”. Maybe we were listening to different speakers on budget night. They thought it was a good budget; I thought it was a distasteful budget.
If Brian Mulroney had been sitting in the opposition gallery, he would have been cheering for almost the entire budget. He would not believe that things could get this right wing in the country.
I received an e-mail this morning—and I know others received it as well—announcing the guest speaker Saturday night at the unite the right convention in Ottawa. Guess who it is? The person that symbolizes real right wing fanaticism in the country, the single individual who has moved the right wing agenda of our country about 185 degrees to the right, the Minister of Finance. The Minister of Finance must be the guest speaker Saturday night at the unite the right conference because there is no better spokesperson for the right wing than the hon. Minister of Finance.
That went out this morning to all sorts of people who are curious about this weekend's events. Now we know at least who the Saturday night guest speaker will be.