Mr. Speaker, how scared the Liberals are of the Reform Party when they make absolutely outstanding comments. This speech is just absolutely, totally off the wall.
As I said to another member from the southern Toronto area, my family and the families of the people within our party have seniors who we are concerned about. We are concerned that this government is destroying the ability of government to fund the social programs on which they depend.
He says about us: "You are just doing to slash and burn, you are going to trash seniors". I cannot imagine the fear that there must be within the Liberal Party that finally there is a party that is prepared to stand up and expose government overspending, expose its inability to get spending under control. Social programs are under threat from the Liberal government.
I do not see anything positive about coming into the House and characterizing Reform members as being uncaring and not worried about social programs. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, that is the reason why we are here. That is the reason why we made such an effort today. We want Canadians to have an opportunity to see an alternative to the silliness that is presently going on.
I ask the hon. member a question. I know he has an accounting background and must be able to read a balance sheet. Surely he must know that while revenue is growing at a rate of 3.3 per cent, debt is growing at a rate of 10.3 per cent. The 7 per cent spread is growing. Every single solitary dollar of the $110 million that we borrow today is going to pay interest on the money we have already borrowed. We are going deeper and deeper into the hole.
Perhaps the hon. member can tell us, as a professional accountant, how in the world can you possibly run a balance sheet when you are going into debt twice as fast as you collect revenue?