No, it did not happen to me and I can tell the House why. When the government tells me how good something is, I study it and then I think maybe I should hit my head against the wall to make sure I am reading it right. If it still concerns me I go out and talk to the public about it, and nine times out of ten the public will set me straight. I am not ashamed to say that I have gone back to my constituents who have said that maybe I have been down in Ottawa a bit too long. They tell me what they want.
It is about time all members of the House start to realize that their job is to bring the concerns of their constituents to the House, not to take from the House and tell constituents what they will get, shut up and like it. It is time we all started to learn that.
An hon. member on the other side mentioned the Speech from the Throne. We can go through any Speech from the Throne and discard it in the wastebasket like we have done for years. What is said at that moment means absolutely nothing. It is all for show. We all know it and the people of Canada know it. It has never been anything more than that to the government. Its object is to jam its agenda down our throats whether or not we like it. Those who do not like it will be branded, labelled and shut up one way or another until they are too afraid to stand up and disagree. That is the agenda of the government.