Madam Speaker, I sense that the hon. member does not know a heck of a lot about what he is saying. The fact is that the deficit is on a downward track.
I would like to educate the hon. member on the difference between a debt and a deficit. A deficit is the amount of money the government blows more of every year over and above the amount of money the government takes in. That is a deficit. Debt, on the other hand, is something like a mortgage on which you have to pay interest. That is a bit of education for some people who do not understand it.
The other point is that it is a matter of the kind of house one builds in this country. When a house is rather old and needs to have the plumbing replaced, perhaps it can be replaced with new plastic plumbing. However, at the same time one does not put in stained glass windows or a brick driveway instead of a black-top driveway. It is a matter of how one rebuilds one's house.
The message here is that if one wants to build one's house, do we build a castle or get a refurbished house?