Mr. Speaker, the only thing the Tories had bigger was the deficit.
If we compare the country today to what it was like in 1993 when we took office, one only had to be minister of finance for three weeks to have that first meeting down at the IMF. We had a country that had not lived up to one decent projection in eight years. We had a country whose currency was under attack. We had a country where interest rates were climbing.
Today we have the strongest balance sheet—