Mr. Speaker, I share my colleague's absolute frustration with the Liberal record over 13 years. It clearly was a mess.
In election after election the old Liberal government promised that it would deliver a national child care program. It never happened. The Liberals made so many promises.
The Liberal member who just asked a question actually referred to the red book and wanted to avoid any responsibility for it. In fact, that red book is a legacy to the broken promises of the Liberal Party.
I also want to remind the member that it was actually this government that increased funding to women's programs in Canada. First, we did an efficiency review. We made sure that the money that was supposed to go to women was not going to high paid lobbyists, high paid lawyers, high paid consultants, but that it was going to the front line where women really needed the funds. That is where the money was redirected. On top of that, our government increased that funding by 42%, some $20 million over two years in budget 2007.
I would ask the member to comment on why she cannot support increasing funding for women's programs as we did in budget 2007.