Mr. Speaker, as I tried to point out, this budget is not something that has just appeared. It is not off the wall. This budget is the culmination of a series of budgets we have had in which our main concern has been to struggle with the problem that was left by the Progressive Conservative Party.
We came in. We did not ask for it but there was a deficit of $42 billion. We were borrowing almost a $1 billion a week at that time. From the very first year, this government started investing in the things I was describing, SchoolNet, health care for women, pre-natal and post-natal health care and so on.
This budget is a further step, one more step forward to making Canada an even greater place in the 21st century.