Mr. Speaker, I agree with the member. It is like a jar of pickles that has a new and improved label on it. We think we are getting something better than what the Liberals offered us but when we open up the jar of Conservative pickles they are more sour than the last jar we tasted. That is exactly what we are dealing with.
Neither party in government were prepared to do the job, whether it was financing valuable programs in terms of health, social policy, housing or aboriginal affairs, or whether it was protecting consumers and getting tough on corporations that try to take advantage of ordinary people. Both parties ignored their mandates and neglected Canadians and we are now paying the price.
What we aimed to achieve today was to begin to straighten out the mess that has been created by both parties, to try to bring some sense to them and hope that together we can work and define a meaningful system in terms of financing provinces or in terms of regulating securities, which would make a big difference for all Canadians.