Mr. Speaker, clearly November 2, 1989, was the day that Conservative premier Grant Devine sold off Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan to private investors and at that time neither Brian Mulroney, the prime minister, nor Liberal opposition in the House raised any opposition to that privatization.
Now we have all 13 Saskatchewan Conservative members of Parliament missing in action. They have done nothing to stop PotashCorp from being taken over by BHP Billiton in this hostile bid. They said nothing in the House that I am aware of over the last month on this issue. It has only been through the efforts of Dwain Lingenfelter, the NDP leader in Saskatchewan, and the national leader of the NDP, the member for Toronto—Danforth, who voiced vocal opposition and forced the Prime Minister to take a second look and stop this takeover.