Mr. Speaker, only Liberal arithmetic could talk about this budget as being a benefit to Canadians.
As a matter of fact, if you look at the budget very carefully—which we have done and they obviously have not—you will see that because of the budget there is no net gain for Canadians. In fact, there is a net detriment to Canadians to the effect of $4.8 billion in increased taxes by the year 2000 since the Liberals came to poewr.
I want to specifically go back to the health care issue of which the member is so proud. The fact is that the Liberals have cut $7.5 billion out of health care and education since 1993. They are putting $1.5 billion back into it. That is a net loss of $6 billion.
Even the NDP party can figure out that is a net loss. Why can the Liberal Party not figure that out?