Mr. Speaker, the government can blow its horn as much as it likes, but the fact is that we still have huge high debts and high taxes. That is what is affecting our standard of living.
Marzolini's advice to the Prime Minister is usually secret but today it is public because the situation is so dreadful. We are poorer now than Mississippi. The Prime Minister knows it and the finance minister knows it, even though most Canadians do not know yet because they have tried to hide it. Does that embarrassing fact not make it just a little hard to stand up and brag about our standard of living?