Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague very much concerning my ability to speak French.
My colleague talks a lot about the deficit. Yes, I did look in my own back yard, and in fact we are now reaping what we had sown by the previous Conservative government.
The Conservative Party inherited a debt of more than $200 billion with an interest rate of more than 21 percent. We implemented free trade. Our friends opposite voted against the GST. We implemented it. They were supposed to scrap it. They did not scrap it, it is still there.
It is our measures that put the country back on track. I can tell you, I guarantee it. It is certainly not what the Liberals did, because they did not do anything concrete, absolutely nothing at all. We will be able to say thanks to the previous Conservative government, I guarantee it.