Mr. Speaker, it has been said that giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
Three decades of Liberal and Tory governments intoxicated from swilling the taxpayers' hard earned money, carousing from one spending program to the next has left Canadians with a painful debt hangover.
While it appears that the Liberals have at last sworn off the stuff at least for now, Canadians know that their dependency problem has not been licked. At the very next opportunity they will sneak off to some dark corner of the budget, knock the top off a bottle of taxpayers' green and succumb to the stupor of fiscal inebriation.
Canadians know that a return to such substance abuse endangers the health of the country. They will not accept their government falling off the wagon. That is why at the next federal election they are going to send these tax and spend Liberals into paroxysms of withdrawal for an extended stay at the nearest fiscal detox centre and elect a sober Reform government.