Mr. Speaker, I direct my question to the hon. member if he will listen, which he does not usually do. I find it rather interesting that he has taken a great deal of time and energy to put the blame obviously on a previous government. I remember the term Brian Mulroney and the deficit and the rest.
I wonder if the member would like to talk about where deficits really started, where they really came from. If my memory serves me correctly, in 1974 a former prime minister by the name of Pierre Trudeau put this country into a deficit position. Would the hon. member like to finally take some responsibility for the fact that it was his previous government in 1974 that actually started that particular ball rolling?
In my speech I will talk about how it was the Mulroney government and the Wilson government that actually brought us out of that hole and started the process to get his budget balanced.