Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the hon. member for Wild Rose.
I am pleased to debate about the government spending some $50 billion. Of course money has to be spent in order to run the government.
I want to make a comment with respect to the Liberal member who last spoke. He was trying to attribute a $42 billion deficit on this side of the House, especially to the Canadian Alliance. That is ridiculous.
I remind the member that I was 11 years old and in grade school when the Prime Minister was first elected to the House. That was the year there was any significant debt. That is when the debt started to skyrocket. Half of the $600 billion can be attributed to the Liberal Party of Canada under Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau. That is when it started. The Canadian public was sick of that debt and elected the Tories.