Madam Speaker, I am really pleased to answer that question. Reform Party members used to be Tories, Conservatives. I remember Brian Mulroney led them. They were here in the House. They had the same right wing agenda then as they have today. They said day after day the Liberals tax and spend. That right wing party with its counterpart over there increased our debt three times in an eight year period. When they came in the debt was $168 billion. When they left it was over $500 billion.
Are we proud of cutting? Darn right, we are proud of cutting, because it had to be done. If we did not make the cuts, my children, my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren would have to pay for the overspending. It had to be done and there is no question about it.
The reality is that the folks across the way say one thing but do something different. They say “We are going to get the economy rolling correctly”. Everybody knows that it was not the Reform Party that had anything to do with straightening out the economy; it was good, solid Liberal policy. We straightened out the economy and now I am proud to be in the position of being able to make Canadian lives better.