Mr. Speaker, anybody could have done better than the federal Tories in reducing the deficit.
What the prime minister failed to mention is that the national debt is $82 billion higher than it was under Mulroney. What he fails to mention is that his government is ripping $3,000 more from every average Canadian family in taxes than Mulroney did. And on top of that there are 1.4 million unemployed.
If the prime minister is not playing a shell game, if he wants to make himself different from Mulroney, then why does he not pass the bulk of any surplus on to Canadian taxpayers?