Mr. Speaker, there certainly is wisdom in getting a platform out ahead. That is exactly what we did last week.
Jobs, jobs, jobs. Some promise. There are 1.4 million Canadians unemployed. One in four Canadians are worried about the jobs they have.
Protecting medicare? A $7 billion Liberal cut to social programs, with $3 billion of that coming directly out of health care, and the Liberals know that.
Stable funding for the CBC? The Liberals cut its budget by a third.
The list of broken promises goes on and on: free votes, an independent ethics counsellor-remember that one?-day care centres and spaces. "We will restore Canadians' faith in themselves and their government" was a promise in the red book. I can hardly believe it.
Why did the government not provide Canadians with a reality check, that is, that 62 promises have been kept and 136 promises are unfulfilled, instead of this list of imaginary red book achievements?