Division No. 1258  We have acknowledged that some private sector entities provide products which can be used to establish privacy. In the area of e-commerce and Internet in general we have some real Canadian success stories with bid.com and some of the enabling technologies. There is a company now in Saint John, New Brunswick, called iMagicTV, which is developing technology to transmit television signals through traditional copper wires.

The Budget  It can tell whether or not it is receiving real tax relief by whether its after tax income is increasing or shrinking. When real Canadian families do that, they find that real after tax income in Canada over the last decade decreased by almost $3,000 per family. It does not matter whether the words tax relief appeared in every second sentence in the federal government's throne speech.

Health Care  I want to tell the Minister of Health that his slash and burn approach to health care funding hurts real Canadians. My constituents want the government to take immediate action to ensure that small towns like Mission can maintain adequate facilities to care for their communities.

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act  I would like to have the consent of the House to table these so that all members can look through them and see what real Canadians feel about the measures that are being proposed today.

Budget Implementation Act, 1999  That hospital is almost two hours away by road, and it is not the best road either I might add. Sadly this is not a Hollywood soap opera. This is a real Canadian nightmare. Elective surgery patients are being cancelled three, four, up to eight times. Think of the mental anguish to those patients. This is unnecessary pain and suffering. It is lost productivity.

People's Tax Form Act  It frightens them because the Liberals are, I am afraid, increasingly out of touch with real Canadians and with what they want their taxes going toward. The Liberal priorities and values are not lining up with those of ordinary Canadians. Instead of funding Liberal projects, this bill would give taxpayers more say and some choice in how their money is spent.

Budget Implementation Act, 1999  I have given members examples in my speech. They should look at those examples. They are real Canadians who are suffering. The government is sending them into bankruptcy. They must be allowed to work and put food on the table. The government must get off the backs of Canadians.

Poverty  Speaker, opposition parties such as the Reform Party can rant and rave against every idea that comes along, but unless a party is prepared to seek out and propose solutions to real problems, it can never hope to form a government. It was in the spirit of finding workable solutions for real Canadians that the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada established our national caucus task force on poverty and homelessness. As an associate member of this important task force, I am pleased to say that today marks the launching of our cross-Canada consultations in Saint John, New Brunswick.

Manitoba Claim Settlements Implementation Act  The three major points are that aboriginal self-government must be stopped; that some government treaties with first nations should be either ignored or modestly interpreted; and that all government programs related to native people should be phased out, i.e. first nations people should be made real Canadians. In other words, no special affirmative action measures to try to recognize the historic imbalance. Does the Reform Party stand behind the implementation of the recommendations of the royal commission on aboriginal people or does it subscribe to Mel Smith's points?

Extradition Act  Before I get into the meat of my debate I would like to have consent of the House to table 7,000 petitions that I have with me which deal with the issues of justice and jurisdiction so that all members can look through them to see what real Canadians feel about the status quo.

Agriculture  The net income stabilization account would help some farmers but it will not help most of the farmers. Is the minister prepared today to admit that NISA does not meet the needs of real Canadian farmers?

Kosovo  That was my read on the situation. I do not doubt his sincerity in his exhortation to me. He was a new Canadian but a real Canadian and I do not doubt the need for our Canadian government to act. I will not, as a member of parliament, let him or the rest of my constituents down. I will not turn my back on the victimized people of Kosovo and I support the initiative of this country to intervene, to cause the Serb government to cease its evil and inhumane operations in Kosovo and to allow humanitarian aid to get to the homeless in Kosovo.

Dna Identification Act  The government always tosses in a strawman. It says that the opposition, for example, is not addressing real concerns. Real Canadians are victims of crime. They toss a strawman or a red herring into the argument by saying that there may be some potential problem with a constitutional aspect or some sort of suggestion on behalf of a bar association or a group of lawyers that do not happen to like something.

Supply  Special interest groups are these bloodsucking institutions that get federal funding. I have not heard of those people out front, those ordinary real Canadians whose freedoms are being endangered by these cryptofascists, who are being abused, who are being threatened, tell me that they are getting federal funding. If they are getting federal funding, I would like to see the cancelled cheques.

Supply  The minister is sending an unacceptable message to Canada's ethnocultural communities and to the public at large that there are two kinds of citizen in Canadian society: those who were born here and those who came from somewhere else. It is particularly worrisome when the minister, in the House, or outside, mentions "real" Canadians. Who are real Canadians, in the minister's opinion? Are they people who agree with his ideas and with the government's positions? Who are not real Canadians? People like me, who criticize his views, his positions.