Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for pointing out that the reason the budget is balanced is the policies that were put in place by the previous Conservative government. I will not go over them, but because of NAFTA we now have an export economy that is generating substantial revenues that the government can hide and spend. We have low interest rates because the government has more money to hide and spend. I do not understand how the government can take the GST as its own policy.
We would not like to see a deficit. What is the surplus? Is it $7 million or $14 billion? The government has hidden the surplus. There may not be a deficit. Some of those dollars from the surplus can go into better programs. The government could do a much better job than what it did in the budget simply by identifying what the real surplus will be.