Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague said that the government is maintaining its commitment.
I find it remarkable that members on that side and another one earlier from another province and another part of the country who have no real knowledge of the accord and have not really understood the history of it are making this claim that the government is keeping its promise, maintaining its commitment. We will not find one person in Atlantic Canada who actually believes that today, not even the government's own members.
We saw that this week when the member for Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley voted against the government, when he stood up for Nova Scotians, for Atlantic Canadians. Now he has been booted out of his own caucus.
My hon. colleague quoted a columnist from a daily newspaper. Here is what another columnist, Mr. David Rodenhiser, said in the Halifax Daily News:
We have a government that lies to us, steals from us, and aligns itself with a party bent on tearing the nation apart. These are not proud days for Canada.
When will the government understand that it has not kept its promise? Why will it not listen to the member for Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley who talked about the 12 clauses in the budget that deal with the accord because the Conservatives are changing it? Why are those 12 clauses there if they are in fact keeping their promise? Why are they fiddling with the accords or talking about the accords at all if they are keeping their promise and not touching them? How is that possible?