Mr. Speaker, I would laud Canadian taxpayers for bearing up under the burden that the government has heaped on them year after year.
Let us talk about the $50 billion farm debt. Let us talk about the $25 billion that the Prime Minister, as finance minister, carved out of the health and social transfers to provinces. Let us talk about the $40 billion that he ripped out of the EI fund to balance his books and fudge them. Let us talk about the $60 billion infrastructure deficit across the country at which they are throwing nickels and dimes.
We have the lowest productivity and the highest taxes of the G-7, and that member wants to say that is a record to laud. I would like to see him take that on the hustings.