Mr. Chair, the business tax reductions through 2012-13 in billions of dollars is $50.5 billion. The GST reduction through that time is $72.7 billion. The personal income tax is $64.9 billion. The grand total of all of that is $188.1 billion in tax reductions.
I understand condescending and perhaps obnoxious, from listening to the member, but the one thing I do not understand is an alleged record by NDP governments as strong fiscal managers. I am old enough to remember a government in British Columbia and I am certainly old enough to remember because I was part of the government that replaced it, the one that was led by the member for Toronto Centre in Ontario.
I can remember in 1995, before the government changed, which is what the member considers strong fiscal management, where the government had to pay $1 million an hour in interest on the accumulated public debt in the province of Ontario, where we had a government that thought it could spend its way out of economic difficulties, where we had a government, not unlike the Liberal government opposite here now, that thinks the solution to the problem is to increase taxes, increase the tax burden on people, run a deficit, yes, that is right, and run up spending. That is the way the member for Toronto Centre governed Ontario from 1990 to 1995 and it is the way the Liberal opposition wants to take us back to the good old days.
I congratulate the member for Burnaby—New Westminster on having illusions at 11 o'clock at night that NDP fiscal policy is good fiscal policy for Canada.