Mr. Speaker, I always listen carefully to the member for Elk Island but he lost me in that last comment. We will pay the debt down as fast as we possibly can in a measured way. It may take time. It took time to accumulate. We cannot do it overnight but it is going to be paid down. It is going to be paid down over successive governments with successive finances.
I appreciate the member's honesty in congratulating us. Obviously we listen to Canadians but I can tell the hon. member that when there was only one Reform member, the hon. member from Beaver River, even before that we were already talking about this in caucus.