Mr. Speaker, what is so embarrassing for the Prime Minister is that while this decline in the standard of living started years ago, it has become worse under his administration. It was falling in 1987, but according to the International Institute for Management Development our overall standard of living was also falling in 1997.
How can the Prime Minister deny the fact that under his policies the gap between the standard of living of Canadians and that of Americans has become $7,000 per person and growing?