Mr. Speaker, I was neglectful in not mentioning the member for Saint Boniface who is also the Secretary of State for Western Economic Diversification.
It is interesting that the member would talk about all these issues. I will agree with him on something. The Reform Party has stood up and mentioned many of those issues in the House, but generally it was the afternoon after it came out in the Globe and Mail or the National Post , which is where it does its research. It was not because it was on any kind of cutting edge or that it was being proactive.
The Reform Party members are reading the newspaper over morning coffee and saying, “Look at this, APEC. We had better talk about this. Holy smokes, there is a scandal. We had better talk about this”. That is where they get their research.
If they would spend more time taking care of their constituents and giving them the information that comes out of this government in western Canada, just maybe there would not be a need for a task force to travel across the west.