Madam Speaker, unlike the Liberals who signed the coalition and then tried to back away from it, we have never shied away from the word. We understand that in today's world, especially now that we are in our third consecutive minority Parliament, it is a very healthy way of governing and it is the type of thing that we will not back away from.
With regard to the member's question as to our policies and who has a coalition going right now, I would just remind my colleague from Burlington that we found out yesterday that behind closed doors a new friendship is developing between his Prime Minister and the leader of the Bloc Québécois. Perhaps the Bloc Québécois' leader is suffering from the Stockholm syndrome. Five years later he is so happy a few crumbs were thrown his way that he thinks we should stop acting as members of Parliament. We in the NDP are going to require that every bill still go to committee and be the proper object of analysis.
With regard to the differences between his opinion and ours, they are well-known and they are well-defined. The problem is that the Conservatives have always been able to count on the Liberals to get their budgets through because the Liberals do not believe in anything. They have no policies. They are the biggest bunch of phonies to have ever sat in this House.