Mr. Speaker, the hon. member for Lakeland has a very poor memory and a faulty one on top of that, because every day since we resumed in September he and his colleagues have been up asking for more expenditures here and more expenditures there. Not one day went by in question period when the official opposition members did not get up and ask the government to play a stronger role than it has so far and to spend more on specific things.
Of course if one were to add up the total cost of the requests made by the various critics on the part of the official opposition, it would be a hefty amount of money. The member for Lakeland has to realize that he cannot have it both ways. In other words, the official opposition cannot ask for greater expenditures and at the same time for reducing the budget, or it cannot ask to have more money invested in certain specific sectors and at the same time to proceed with tax reductions. These are contradictions that are available to anyone who has taken economics 101. Perhaps the member for Lakeland will one day take a course in economics and learn the basics of that fine art.