Mr. Speaker, I went to the Calgary Stampede a couple of years ago and I watched the bull riding competition. After a rider was bucked off, the rodeo clown would come out. He would jump around, wave his arms, and make all kinds of motions to distract the bull. With the bull coming out of the corner there today, we might have to bring one of those rodeo clowns in.
To say that paying down debt is a bad use of taxpayers' money is totally ludicrous. When we were in government and cut the cheque for $800 million, and Premier Hamm at the time put that money on the debt, that loosened up $40 million to $50 million each year to put into hospitals and schools. Is that a bad thing?