Joey Smallwood and the Government of Canada. This House of Commons forced the people of Newfoundland into an agreement which was unjust and unfair and we have never been able to change it.
I want to remind the member that the same thing almost happened in western Canada when the national energy program was in place. It almost impoverished the province of Alberta. It could have made it a have not province had it stayed in place much longer.
I want to ask the hon. member if there is going to be some time in history when we could have a moratorium on paying back all of the royalties that we receive in Newfoundland from resource projects until such time as Newfoundland is a have province.