Mr. Speaker, there is nothing as unreformed as a New Democrat from outside Ontario where they never had to face the prospects of governing.
What underlies that question is a complete inability to do the arithmetic which drove the country to the point of bankruptcy in 1993, led by the province of Ontario where the New Democrats for five years spent their way into oblivion.
We have created the conditions by creating jobs, by seeing job creation expand and by seeing people go back to work. There are more people working in Canada today than at any time in our entire history.
What the NDP needs to understand and what the member needs to understand is that once we get to the basic problem of creating prosperity in society, problems that are solved by getting people to work, by increasing our productivity, by being competitive, by contributing to the factors that make the quality of life here the best in the world, we get to the source of the problems that he wants to talk about. We cannot solve one without dealing with the other.