Mr. Speaker, I listened very attentively to the speech on the budget given by our colleague for Central Nova. However, I must confess that I detected bias in her comments. This hon. member must be on the same team as the Minister of Finance.
She said a few minutes ago that she saw the budget as a source of jobs-there is nothing to be seen. There is absolutely nothing there, less than nothing for job creation in this country, on the contrary. The only good thing the Liberal government has done to create jobs was the $2 billion, which became-because it was a tripartite program-$6 billion.
That was the only good creative thing where jobs could be created, and it should be said that the jobs were temporary. There was $200 million left, and they were threatening to cut it. And the hon. member for Central Nova is telling us that jobs will be created out of this budget. On the contrary, there is nothing.
She spoke of the deficit and of the debt which had become huge, a major problem for the country. This is true. I, however, would remind her that, in 1970, when her team was running the country, the deficit was almost nil-$1 billion and some. It was "improved" again and again. There were of course Mr. Clark's nine months and the preceding government's nine years, but today's $550 billion debt, on which we pay $50 billion in interest a year, is the child of her own party, except for the nine years the Conservatives were in government, before the Liberals returned to power.
I conclude by asking my colleague how she is going to justify to her constituents the fact that they have widened the gap to obtain parity in industrial milk and unprocessed milk in Nova Scotia?