Madam Speaker, we have heard much about the transfer of wealth of Canada to the provinces.
If we look at our debt and our deficit and the borrowing we have to do we are not transferring the wealth of Canada, one might say, we are transferring the wealth of other countries we borrow from and the people of Canada from whom we have borrowed.
We have seen the Liberal government of past years plunge our country into a debt situation of approximately $200 billion. We have seen the Conservative government more than double that in the last nine years until we are now sitting in a situation looking at a $500 billion debt. We are plunging into debt by another $40 billion approximately and we have paid interest on that debt of $40 billion in the last year.
I would like to ask the member, if he has time to respond to the question, if he feels we can continue in this way in view of the plunge into debt we have experienced over the last 20 years.