Madam Speaker, I appreciate the question from my hon. friend.
I want to clarify one point that he made, or perhaps add clarification. I do not think he was saying that the Social Credit government actually managed the state of the province well. That is not my view.
We will all recall that when the New Democrat government took over office in British Columbia it brought in one of the more internationally recognized accounting firms to evaluate the books and it found the whole place a complete financial disaster. We will start from that and then go on, much the same as this government is finding the Conservative situation regarding the whole country.
I will acknowledge the point that we have seen a general understanding that it is important to get the debt and the deficit under control in British Columbia for some time.
There is probably no province in which that has been demonstrated more clearly than the province of Saskatchewan, if my memory serves me. There seems to have been a pattern. This is an interesting pattern, although I do not want to take up a lot of the time of the House by talking about it. It just seems natural that people change governments. They elect another government, either a Liberal or a Tory government and it turns the whole place into a financial disaster. Then it gets tossed out and in comes the CCF or the NDP again. It gets everything in order over a period of time. This just plays itself out.
That is a reality and just the way things go in that province.