Mr. Speaker, nothing focuses the mind like bankruptcy, particularly the bankruptcy of a nation.
If the hon. member were staring the budget deficit of $42 billion or $28 billion or $8.9 billion in the face, what would she have not done that we have done the past year? Would she have not paid down $16 billion on the debt? Would she have not cut EI premiums by $1.4 billion, 1% of the government's revenues? Would she have not given an $850 million tax credit, with a further tax credit to come, for children? Would she not have restored $12.5 billion to the cash component of the CHST?
Which parts of these programs would she not have done, because these parts of our program do show our values that one has to be fiscally responsible. One has to be focused. It is fine to talk rhetoric, but I would like to hear the hon. member tell us which one of those programs would she not have engaged in.