Mr. Speaker, I simply could not let the member's words about drivel go unnoticed.
I wonder if he would agree with Bill Good, B.C. based radio call-in host, who said on CTV's "Sunday Edition": "What Paul
Martin has done is gathered a considerable amount of credibility by hitting the targets that he has said he was going to hit, that is keeping interest rates relatively low because international investors now believe Paul Martin is serious about deficit reduction".
Would he also agree with Jeffrey Simpson, Globe and Mail columnist who said: ``If only federal governments 10 years ago had introduced budgets like the last two, including yesterday's-The fight against deficit-debt has been waged thus far successfully without major tax increases to which Canadians have become politically resistant. It has instead been fought where it belongs, in the government's own spending and in transfer to the provinces''.
Would he agree with the Montreal Gazette editorial: ``For the most part Mr. Martin deserves praise for keeping his government's promise to keep federal finances under control without damaging the core of the country's social services and without hurting too many people too badly''.
Perhaps he would agree with Jason Moscovitz that the reason for the drivel of the member's opposite is that, as Mr. Moscovitz said: "With the Liberals showing the deficit declining, the Reform Party appears to have been caught flat footed. Paul Martin had a day he may not soon forget. In straight parliamentary terms he beat up the opposition-