Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for his very dramatic intervention. One thing puzzles me. I know the hon. member is an economist, yet in his intervention I detected hints of three economic theories all warring in the same breast. I heard a bit of Adam Smith. I heard a bit of Engels perhaps and a great deal of John Maynard Keynes.
As far as his immediate question regarding secession is concerned, is the hon. member suggesting that if they bail out and leave the sinking ship of state they will not be required to man any of the lifeboats? They could get off scot free after having benefited from the largess of deficit spending for lo these 20 years. Now they will leave us holding the bag and take nothing. Is this what the hon. member is saying?