Mr. Speaker, first, I would like to deal with the issue of the flag because in spite of the member's comments I was not one of those people who had a flag on my desk. Indeed we had flags in the House of Commons. I believe that is a suitable display.
I was chagrined about the charade. I was even more chagrined when I tried to bring forward a private member's bill to create a flag day. I proposed to make February 15 a national holiday and some of his colleagues voted against making it a votable motion. That is hypocrisy if I have ever seen it.
Second, back in 1993-94 his party had a wonderful plan. It put out this little thing called fresh start or something like that. It had a budget plan which did not add. I got your leader to admit that it did not add. You could not even--