What I want to tell you is that being in government is about making choices. The previous government tried to be all things to all people. When you're in government you have to make choices to put money here as opposed to there. We made a decision to hire more police officers. We made a decision to increase funding for health care. We made a decision to expand the tax credit for disabled children. We made a decision to deal with many of these issues, and it is in government about making choices.
You can't do everything. I suppose it would be a little easier if you brought in three budgets in one year as opposed to bringing in one budget. I don't think that approach has a lot of support.
I agree that there certainly was a lot to challenge. In 12 years of Liberal government, there was a lot of Liberal legislation that was worthy of challenging. If the Liberals had cared so much about equality maybe they wouldn't have cut the Status of Women budget so dramatically when they were in government. Maybe they wouldn't have cut health care by $25 billion. Maybe they wouldn't have cut minority language funding by 25%. So before you get on the high pedestal, I'd just look at the Liberal record. The Liberals fired 40,000 public servants and cut health care by $25 billion. I think our choices were far more responsible.