Mr. Speaker, Canada is the only G-7 country not to be in deficit, the G-7 country with the largest debt paydown of any of them and the only country among all the industrial countries to have had a decline of 20% in its debt to GDP ratio.
The fact is that this government has managed the nation's finances well, which is why we have been able to come through this downturn as well as we have. That virtually is what every economist in the country has said today, the day after the budget.