Mr. Speaker, it is Academy Award nomination time again. There are some Oscar nominees who have been overlooked by the academy, so we offer them to you today.
Best actor: The Prime Minister. There is no doubt about it. For seven years he has been cutting health care and acting like he is not.
Best makeup: The Canadian alliance or the Reform Party, or whatever they are calling it. Every Canadian knows it is the same old Reform underneath, no matter how many times they change their name.
Best foreign language film: This would be the Reform Party too. Canadians consistently say their priority is health care, but Reform thinks it is tax cuts for the rich, which is foreign to anyone who is staying in a hospital.
Best performance in a musical: The health minister for his question period renditions of the same old tune “I'm saving medicare”.
Best supporting actor: The finance minister for his portrayal of Scrooge in the Liberal government's budget series.
Finally, best lead in a horror feature: Ralph Klein for “Destroying Medicare III—The Privatization Bill”.