Mr. Speaker, with all due respect, the hon. member is spouting nonsense. When a government inherits a $13 billion surplus, it is difficult not to do some spending or make some tax cuts because that government is starting from such a wonderful vantage point.
However, the point is that if a government does too much, it brings the country to a deficit within a very short space of time. If something should go wrong somehow, this country will return to deficit. That is the risk at which the government has put Canadians. Canadians suffered much and laboured hard and long to get rid of that Conservative deficit, and now in two short years the Conservative Party, the government, is bringing Canada back to the brink of a deficit.