Mr. Speaker, I think we all get into politics because we care about people. The question becomes what our priorities are, what we think are investments.
Evidently what we think is an investment is quite different from what you think an investment is. I think we have to make sure that we are investing in our companies, in our economy and in our productivity and innovation, but we also have to remember that there are a lot of Canadians who have not had the opportunities that many of us may have had and that we need to be investing and giving a hand up to many Canadians so they can go on to be very productive. That comes back to what we invest our money in.
When you talk about the balanced budget, you had an opportunity in the Conservatives for nine years--