On Wednesday, October 18, 2000, the Liberals brought in a mini-budget straight out of the Canadian Alliance playbook - with massive tax cuts for big corporations and the wealthy. And later that same day, the Alliance joined the Liberals' league in corporate fundraising with a ,000 per table Bay Street fundraiser with Toronto's corporate elite.

Bill Blaikie responded with the following statement in the House of Commons (Octpber 20,2000):

Mr. Bill Blaikie (Winnipeg—Transcona, NDP): Mr. Speaker, Wednesday was one of those days in political life when the truth cannot be hidden any more, and the truth is, there is very little difference between the Canadian Alliance and the Liberals.

Despite what the leaders of the parties would have us believe, we are in a situation where as it used to be with the Liberals and Conservatives. We have two elitist parties catering to the same well-heeled corporate crowd while trying to trick their supporters and the Canadian public into believing something else.

When the Liberals bring in an Alliance budget, and when the Alliance holds a ,000 a table dinner in Toronto, both left wing Liberals and the right wing populace who were the backbone of the Reform Party, must know that they have been sold out by their leaders.

Canadians who do not want to be sold out by either of these two corporate henchmen, many of whom earn less in a year than it takes to buy a table for one night at such fundraisers, know they have a true friend in the NDP.