Mr. Speaker, we can always count on certain members of the Alliance Party to reveal their true colours. Some of them have grown adept at chameleon politics. They keep trying to look like part of the mainstream by saying that they are not really against equalization, bilingualism or this or that, all the things they were against when they came together to form the against party.
However, with some of them, the truth still comes oozing out. That member is a good example of one of those members. Here he is talking about have not provinces that are in receipt of equalization payments in the same way that I am sure he likes to stereotype people on welfare. The language was identical.
What the member did not acknowledge is that there is a formula now. When provinces get to a certain state of economic revenues they do not receive equalization. That is already built in. Does the member not know that or was he just trying to make some perverse point that we are not all like B.C. and Alberta?