Mr. Speaker, I must say it is certainly entertaining to hear that member talking about breaking promises, because if ever there were an expert in the House, he knows all about that area. All we have to do is ask David Orchard about that.
The fact of the matter is that we are working hard on behalf of Nova Scotia. We are working toward an agreement. We are working in a positive tone with the provincial government.
Those members know that and he is upset about the fact that I am talking about the history of his own party and their own comments in the past. It is no wonder he is upset. He must have his own problems with the comments of his own leader in the past and generally with those of members of his party toward Atlantic Canada. He knows what the attitude has been toward Atlantic Canada. It has been negative throughout, but Atlantic Canadians know that too and that is the reason they so clearly rejected his party in the last election and will in the next election again.
They know what those members stand for. They know how that party feels about the charter of rights and how it rejects the charter of rights. They are very upset now, and I see that, but the fact of the matter is that the deal on the table now is much better than the deal that their government, the Conservative government, negotiated in 1986. In fact, that is the problem here, the basis of that deal. If it had been done well back then by that government, it would be all right and we would not be having these discussions.
It is better than the Conservative deal that was put on the table this summer by the Leader of the Opposition, which would have cost my province $6 million.