Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the fact that you have acknowledged I had some time left in answering the question from the Reform Party.
The question had to do with the comparison the Reform Party tries to make quite often that running a government is very much like running a business. Of course I do not agree that running the Government of Canada is like running a business at all.
The member said we should have had a pretty good idea when we took power about what was happening with the books and records of the country. The member knows that when we took
over the books and records, there was close to a seven or eight billion dollar difference in the real numbers.
I really believe the Reform Party should acknowledge that. It should likewise acknowledge that our very aggressive handling of the deficit and the debt is something for which we should be given some marks.