Mr. Speaker, while listening to the speech from my colleague from the NDP, it reminded me of a saying that my father always had about the NDP. I would apply it to the Liberals as well because it is only kind to share sometimes. He used to say that the motto of the NDP was “I don't have anything, but I am more than perfectly willing to share half of what you've got”.
It is always easy to be a member of the NDP because the NDP is in favour of everything. If someone wants that party to spend more, it will spend more. If someone wants that party to cut taxes, it will cut taxes. The NDP never make any hard choices at all.
At the end of the day, if the New Democratic Party were ever anywhere close to coming into power federally, or if there were a minority Parliament, it would actually have to think pragmatically rather than taking half of what everybody else has to finance whoever it is it is trying to please.
In order to finance all the programs that the NDP has in mind for everybody under sun, specifically what taxes would it raise to pay for the myriad of programs it has in mind? Those members want more money for softwood. The member for Sackville--Musquodoboit Valley--Eastern Shore wants more money for the military, more money for roads, more money for Air Canada, more money for rail and more money for health care. How will that party pay for all of that? If the member could tell us it would be very helpful.