Mr. Speaker, I certainly thank the hon. member for his comments, but I think he just proved the very point, the very message that Albertans are sending. We want government out of our lives. We do not want government giving this and handing out that and taxing us more and more so that it can spend our money for us. Leave the money in our pockets. We are entrepreneurial. We are creative. We can take care of it.
The 1960 socialist philosophy of “government will take care of everything” did not work anywhere. If it had the eastern bloc countries would be leading the parade in the world today. But they are not. They are collapsed and in decay because they had too damned much government.
Get the message. Get out of our hair. Let us run our province. We are proud Canadians. We want to be Canadians. The government should not tax the very incentive out of us and then hand it back through all of the programs that have been so kindly mentioned.