Party Fundraising  Mr. Speaker, I am glad to present this motion to this House and to launch the debate on the following motion: "That, in the opinion of this House, the government should bring in legislation limiting solely to individuals the right to donate to a federal political party, and restricting such donations to a maximum of $5,000 a year".

Borrowing Authority Act, 1994-95  I rise on a point of order, Mr. Speaker.

Canadian Foreign Policy  Mr. Speaker, I will just speak briefly, mostly on the amendment proposed by the Reform Party. I will say that we, Quebecers, have the same concerns about the involvement of the Senate, that we should call the other place, I believe, when we refer to it in the House. I am totally in agreement with the amendment which would remove any mention of that other place.

Supply  Very briefly as usual, Mr. Speaker. I always follow your precious advice. I was very surprised to hear the previous speaker, a member of the Liberal Party, express astonishment that a member of the Reform Party may have changed his mind or acted differently after an election. It is a distinctive feature of the Liberal Party to say one thing during the election campaign and something different after the campaign.

Supply  Not with that budget.

Supply  Mr. Speaker, I was not surprised that the Liberal member who just spoke ignored the concerns of the opposition parties regarding the deficit, because to the Liberals, deficits are part of their culture. In fact, they invented them. Our big deficits started with Mr. Turner in 1972, 1974 and 1975, and in 1981, when the Liberals forecast a $16 billion deficit, they waited for 16 months before bringing down a budget and then produced a deficit of $38 billion by the end of 1983.

Supply  Mr. Speaker, I was surprised to hear the last speaker talk about the quasi rebirth of Canada under the infrastructure program. Of course new infrastructures will create some temporary jobs, but the public, the people of Canada were expecting much more than that in terms of governmental economic policy.

Borrowing Authority Act, 1994-95  Mr. Speaker, after this budget, I would worry about the next opinion polls. If they want to talk about the fact that I was a Conservative, we will talk about it. And I may remind you that the hon. member in the Chair today, who is a member of your party, was a member of the Conservative Party when I was.

Borrowing Authority Act, 1994-95  Mr. Speaker, I am also pleased to speak on this motion concerning a ways and means bill, which deals with the government's budget intentions as well. Of course, I will take the same position as the previous speaker and say how disappointed my constituents and I are with the budget.

Petitions  There are no conditions, Sir, I withdraw it entirely. But I would like to remind the members that the Prime Minister, not the present one, but Mr. Mulroney, used that word, you can check the Chair's records, against the member for Shefford, Mr. Lapierre, who was then the Bloc Quebecois House leader.

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I agree with you, the word "hypocrite" should be banned from this House. But while I am willing to withdraw it, I would like to remind-

Petitions  Hypocrite. You are a hypocrite.

Petitions  You too are a francophone.

Petitions  Get up and go talk to your caucus.

Petitions  I have had enough of this.