Mr. Speaker, the member obviously does not know what he is talking about.
The Reform government will put $2.5 billion back into health care. Furthermore we will reduce the tax burden on a family of four earning $30,000 by $4,000 a year. That will put almost $1 billion more into Atlantic Canada than is presently being distributed in Atlantic Canada through all of those pork jobs the Liberals love to keep the strings on.
Our position is that we believe a dollar in the hand of the consumer beats the heck out of a dollar in the hands of the member. What is wrong with putting money into the hands of the people in Atlantic Canada who can be responsible and use that money in a far more responsible way than ACOA or any other program could think of?