Mr. Speaker, in 1992 the Mulroney government passed the debt servicing and reduction act. It established a special account to pay down the debt from a special surplus. Of course, Mulroney continued to spend so there was neither a surplus nor any debt reduction. The whole thing was a shell game.
Now this prime minister promises to put 50 percent of any surplus into a special fund and to pay down the debt and give tax relief from that account while continuing to spend at record levels.
My question for the prime minister is how is his shell game any different from Mulroney's shell game?