Madam Chairman, I want to commend the secretary of state. He has cleared up a lot of the misunderstanding that has been put to the Canadian public through C-SPAN because of some of the comments made by the various critics on the Reform Party side.
One thing the Reform Party members cannot stand is good news. They cannot stand the good fiscal news that is coming from this side of House.
I want to remind everybody here that in the nine years prior to the government being elected there was a right wing government. It was a Conservative government. It had promised the Canadian public that it would put the finances of this country where they should have been, or so it said.
For nine successive budgets the ministers of finance came in and each and every time made projections. They made projections about what the deficit would be. They made projections about employment.