Mr. Speaker, as always I listen very carefully when a member of the opposition stands to speak and on something as important as the throne speech, I am even more diligent. I found a few comments rather offensive, but that oftentimes happens in the House of Commons.
The suggestion was made that somehow our government misled people regarding the Atlantic accord. I remind the hon. member that if it were not for this government, when it was on the opposition benches, pushing as hard as we did on the former government, there would be no Atlantic accord.
We have a situation where there is some misinterpretation and we are correcting that very quickly. A couple of premiers are onside already and one more to go.
The member opposite was the minister of fisheries. When he talks about things such as the problems he outlined in agriculture, aquaculture, transportation, labour market, I remind him that the economy is better now than it has ever been.
What did he do as a former minister, when his party was the government, to solve all of these problems, the problems that were there for years and years and went unheeded?