Mr. Speaker, talk about misrepresentation. Let us be clear. The difficult decision that my wife should stay home with our children was a financial one. It simply meant that we had to make sacrifices financially. I say that it was the right thing to do and a good thing to do.
The member should not try to pretend, as NDP members often do, that they sanctimoniously have that particular market cornered. Many of us on this side have made decisions like that to raise our families. There is no question they are tough decisions. It is easier to just stick to the income side of it.
On the issue of what the government has done, the government has realized that we cannot function with a $42 billion deficit. The government came into office and realized that we owed it to Canadian families and Canadian children to be able to afford to provide day care programs, to be able to afford to provide social assistance, to be able to put money back into health care as we did in the last budget to which members opposite are opposed.
We have to make tough decisions in government, unlike members opposite who will never find themselves in those difficult decision making positions.