Mr. Speaker, I think it is very interesting that the minister now says that we are doing well with the 65 cent dollar.
The Liberals were not always so blase about the weak dollar. When the finance minister was running for the Liberal leadership the first time, he viciously attacked the Tories when the dollar fell under 80 cents. This is what he said back then: “The only choice is the way you manage it down to 78 cents. Michael Wilson's way, it drops down to 70, it collapses. The Canadian dollar should be 78 cents”.
Why did the finance minister let our dollar drop to 78 cents, then 75 and then 70? If 70 cents—