Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the member for Calgary North who I thought gave a fine presentation. Seemingly she is concerned about finding somebody to blame for our past problems and our budgetary situation today.
I note that all western democracies, all OECD countries, increased their deficits during this period of time. Clearly we would not blame the Prime Minister or our party for the debts of the rest of the world.
I do not think it is fair realistically to go back and study history. What we want and what the people of Canada want are solutions. I am surprised by an opposition party that has no solutions. All I heard were complaints. All I heard were problems. There were no solutions.
There is one thing I would like to know as a bottom line from my hon. colleagues in the Reform Party. They want to basically allocate social spending to the provinces, give up tax points to the provinces. What is the end result of this philosophy? Ten balkanized countries within Canada? What about standards, health standards, labour standards? What is it that makes a country?