--but you're also wrong about the spending issue. For every $3 we had, we used $2 for reducing taxes and $1 for spending.
You make the assumption, the traditional Liberal assumption, that the only way to resolve problems in Canada is to throw money at them. You also make the assumption, as Liberals always did when they budgeted here for 13 years, of creating these artificial numbers, at the end of the budget, of zero-zero and pretending it was balanced.
We didn't do that this year. We actually put in the correct numbers at the end of the budget, which you've just quoted, that actually there will be a $400 million surplus, and $1.4 billion next year, and so on. We didn't mislead the Canadian people, quite frankly, and then come up with huge surprise surpluses at the end of most fiscal years, which Liberal governments did year after year in Canada.