Madam Speaker, hon. members down the way and members of the Progressive Conservative Party seem to be suggesting somehow what Canadian Alliance members ran on in the last election as Reformers. I have here a copy of our quick facts policy handbook for Reform Party candidates from the 1997 election which says that a Reform government would abolish the MP pension plan and replace it with pensions comparable to those in the private sector. That is our position.
I note that the Tories had a position. They promised a privatized plan like those of other Canadians. Yet they were in government from 1984 all the way to 1993. They had a massive majority. They could have changed the plan but they did not. Would my hon. colleague comment on that?