Mr. Speaker, what frightens me when we hear the Liberals talking is that they speak with such passion they are quite convincing. They believe that what they say is true. It frightens me because they are able to deceive Canadians by being so totally deceived themselves about the facts.
I want to draw an analogy. In my youth I worked as a truck driver on the big rigs. We did not have phones in the rigs in those days but let us take it to modern days. Here I am, my job is to haul some combines from Regina to Winnipeg, which conveniently is about 600 kilometres, about 100 kilometres for every billion dollar of debt we have. I take the truck and phoned my boss and say I am doing fine. I tell him I am at Indian Head, a few kilometres away, and I am doing great. He says, “Good, what time do you think you will get to Regina?” I say, “Well, I may not because Regina is behind me. I'm on the road. I'm going about 20 to 30 kilometres an hour but it is behind me.” I keep on driving all day and the boss phones again. He says “How are you doing now?” I say, “Well I've just crossed the border into Manitoba”. He says, “Hey, you are supposed to go to Regina”. I tell him I will go a little faster.
We had the Trudeau Liberals for awhile and then we had Mulroney Conservatives and they goosed the thing up to 40 kilometres an hour, $40 billion a year. Now we have these Liberals and just as they are approaching Winnipeg, $600 billion, they are bragging because they have slowed the truck down to 17 kilometres an hour. I am sorry, now it is only going nine kilometres per hour, but Winnipeg is just about there and Regina the destination is way back behind in the rearview mirror. And these guys think they have—