Madam Speaker, I am pleased to conclude this evening's debate. I compliment the members of the House who participated in the debate like my colleagues in the NDP. I know the member for Sackville—Musquodoboit Valley—Eastern Shore has been a strong advocate in advancing this debate. The member from Lévis has been a champion for advancing the cause to have a modern shipbuilding policy that actually works compared to the one which we currently have that does not work.
However, my greatest compliments go to the member for Surrey Central for what he essentially has done for me in the riding of Fundy—Royal. He has augmented my vote by about eight to ten per cent. He categorically said this evening that the shipbuilding industry in Canada is dead. That was the cornerstone of his debate. The result that I can go to the polls in Fundy—Royal and say categorically that Reform will do nothing, zero, to augment the shipbuilding industry.
The problem is that the Reform member missed the fundamental issue. The cornerstone of what all 10 premiers are advocating, every single premier including the Progressive Conservative premiers Michael Harris, Ralph Klein and Bernard Lord, is tax reduction and an incentive based modernized shipbuilding policy based on reducing taxation. The problem is—