Yes, I did. Early in his remarks he criticized the government for having incurred a hundred billion debt in the course of the four years of its mandate. He was alluding to the fact that it took us four years to reduce the deficit of $44 billion a year down to zero. He was criticizing us for not cutting spending fast enough.
We are Liberals, not Reformers. We believe we have to move rather reasonably on these things and not an immediate slash and burn. We tried to move ahead in cutting spending in an orderly fashion so the economy could get used to it.
Nevertheless, after four years we did get there. I am sure the member for Calgary Southeast will agree it is very good to get the deficit down to zero and to start paying down the debt.
If the member for Calgary Southeast who supports the Conservative motion listened very carefully to what the Conservatives were saying, he would have heard that the Conservatives—