Madam Speaker, there happens to be three of us in the House tonight who remember the last time we had a Conservative government and a Conservative budget. The member for Sudbury and the member for Hamilton Mountain are here. We sat through five years of Conservative budgets.
It is no wonder that the members opposite can get up and talk as they have tonight. They do not remember five years of budgets when we went deeper and deeper in debt, when programs got cut, when interest payments kept going up, when the Prime Minister of Canada, a man called Brian Mulroney, was in Washington and New York talking to Americans, telling them this country was going bankrupt. He was right. This country was on the verge of bankruptcy and only a Liberal finance minister, the current Prime Minister, saved it from bankruptcy.
The Conservatives over there and Canadians should remember what the last Conservative government did to our country.