Mr. Speaker, given that the recovery is so fragile and given that economists, not only in our country but in other countries, acknowledge that Canada has done a very good job at coming out of this recession but that it is fragile, I am curious to know from the member where he positions himself, given that he has in the past criticized the Liberal government for slashing much of the transfer payments that went to our provinces during a terrible fragile time.
I want to quote something that the member said in the past:
Shifting the burden to the provinces for these services was the easy but cowardly way to accelerate deficit reduction...The Chrétien-Martin cuts sent the health and education systems into crisis in every Canadian province.
Given that the member said that in the past when the Liberals made these mistakes, I am wondering if he could in fact support our government in our efforts not to make the very same Liberal government mistakes by what it did to artificially balance the books on the backs of the provinces.