I think the member is having his cake and eating it as well. A few moments ago the Reform party member for Souris—Moose Mountain got up. He is a former Conservative MLA in Saskatchewan under the administration of premier Grant Devine which, according to one of his former speech writers, was the most corrupt government in the history of this country.
The member for Souris—Moose Mountain was complaining about the lack of money going into health care and highways. The Devine government in its nine short years ran up the biggest per capita deficit of any provincial government in this country and the second largest per capita debt, second only to Newfoundland, of any government in this country.
The Devine government was a soulmate of the Reform party. It spoke one way before an election about fiscal responsibility and after the election was the most irresponsible spender in the history of this country, almost bankrupting my province. That is one reason why we do not have the flexibility today we would want to have in terms of the programs the people of the province require.
I ask the member how he can get up in this House and talk about fiscal responsibility when his soulmate in Saskatchewan, Grant Devine, leader of the most corrupt government in the history of this country, was the biggest spender we have ever seen in terms of driving up the debt and deficit and burdening the people for generations to come. That is sheer hypocrisy.