Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member very much for that softball. Yes, it is correct that the Reform Party should be given much more credit than we are being given for having been one of the sources that pushed in the crucial months before the 1995 budget for a much more restrictive budget than the Liberal ideology would have produced otherwise.
At the same time what the hon. member just mentioned makes this Liberal report that we are talking about right now such a tragedy. That the hard won victory of 1995 turned the corner. It meant a shift in the battle but the battle is only half way there. This year's deficit is still around $20 billion. It still adds $75 million a day to the debt clock. The debt clock has slowed down somewhat but it is still ticking like a time bomb. Here we have the first revolt of the left-wing Liberals who believe it is time to start spending again.
It was defended on the floor of this House and it is something which is very scary given the history of this government in this country in its inability to resist the siren songs of spending.