Madam Speaker, if there were a family in my riding with an income of about $50,000 a year and it was spending $15,000 more than its income, having to borrow on credit cards, I think the last thing we would hear that family talking about when its borrowing decreased to $5,000 per year was where to spend the extra money. It does not have any extra money. It is still spending $5,000 a year more than what it is taking in.
That is the state of affairs in this country. The Liberals like to pass on to Canadians the myth that their finances are in order.
I have to concede, hesitantly, that they have made some progress. They are borrowing less. That is true, but to try to pass that off as economic success and as fiscal responsibility is—I cannot use the word. That is what it is. It is what I cannot say.
I ask the member what she said in the campaign.
Did she, like the Minister of Finance, say our fiscal house is in order, please vote for us, we're great? Now they are talking about spending money. They have not even heard the question yet. What are the needs? Where do we have to spend the money? Instead, they are in advance saying they going to spend 50 percent of the surplus.
During this Liberal government we went into debt another $100 billion in the last term of Parliament. If that does not stop then Canadians are doomed. I want this member's response to that and I want that to be a responsible response.