Mr. Speaker, I compliment my hon. colleague who is doing a masterful job at bringing out the points out in the House today, a very adequate job indeed.
Earlier he mentioned the member of Parliament for Avalon. Some interesting comments were made. The Conservatives seem to be vehemently defending the part of the budget that they call equalization, but yet comments heard through the media recall the member for Avalon saying as follows, “I mean, politicians of all political stripes have made promises before...you know...many of them have broken the promises they have made, I mean it's not a new thing to a lot of people”. The fact is that we have a budget here that is of some benefit, but in many, many ways we did not get what most people wanted on equalization, he said.
There we have it.
Therefore, now we are seeing a tightening of the message, and I am sure the hon. member, being from Nova Scotia, is experiencing the same sort of thing from his Conservative colleagues in his province.