Madam Speaker, I listened to the hon. member for Bonaventure-Îles-de-la-Madeleine. I wish I was as confident about anything as the hon. member opposite seems to be about everything, especially since it was the party opposite that was the father, the parents and the grandparents of the present dilemma our country faces today.
The member opposite is very quick to criticize opposition parties. However it does not seem to sink into members opposite that there is a good deal of distrust in the nation of the Liberal government, the parents of the dilemma that our country is in today, the very people who got us into this mess. A lot of people perhaps mistrust the fact that the Liberals present themselves as the people who have seen the error of their ways and are now going to be the ones who will lead us out of this dilemma and into the promised land. A lot of people in Canada have a healthy degree of scepticism about the ability of the Liberals to come through and do what they acknowledge must be done.
I have a question for the hon. member for Bonaventure-Îles-de-la-Madeleine whom I know to be earnest and hardworking. I honestly believe he speaks with conviction. What in his opinion is the single most important ingredient in getting our nation's finances back on track? What is the single ingredient on which everything else hinges?