Mr. Speaker, I must agree with my colleagues in the Reform Party this time. The Liberal government has done nothing at all for the economic recovery. On the contrary. A few weeks after Mr. Martin tabled his first budget, interest rates shot up. That is why we will have to pay $2.7 billion more for interest alone.
Not only the finance minister's credibility, but the measures he advocated in his first budget did not help the economic recovery and job creation; rather, they hurt economic growth and the growth of employment. If he had taken effective-I would say tougher-measures on February 22, more jobs would have been created and the financial picture would have been much better in the last few months.
I ask him where the Liberal Party contributed to greater growth, when everyone says that it has not in the past six months?